On Thu, Oct 20, 2005 at 02:10:36PM -0400, Daniel Berlin wrote: > On Thu, 2005-10-20 at 07:25 -0700, Steve Kargl wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 20, 2005 at 02:47:19PM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote: > > > * Daniel Berlin: > > > > > > > You could simply do non-recursive checkouts (svn co -N) of the dirs you > > > > want. > > > > SVN doesn't care how you piece together the working copy. > > > > > > Doesn't "commit -N" cause the working copy to become fragmented, so > > > that you cannot issue a working-copy-wide commit or diff anymore? > > > > yes. > > I actually forgot the dumbest and easiest solution, that works fine, > that is, to use svn switch. > > checkout a gcc copy. > > go to the gcc subdir > > svn switch svn+ssh://[EMAIL PROTECTED]/svn/gcc/emptydir ada > > repeat for each dir you don't want. > > This allows update and commit and all others to work from the top-level > dir without any problems. It also should work okay through merges and > other things. >
Thank you. I've removed most of the C++, java, and ada code. My working copying is now 290MB. I spent nearly 5 hours yesterday reading the svn FAQ, mailing list archives, and the docs. I never came across this solution. > Sorry, this solution slipped my mind. > I apologize. No need to apologize. I'm sure you have plenty of issues to address. With this tidbit of info, I withdraw an objections with moving to svn. -- Steve
