Thank you Mark. Works like a charm :) For those who don't want to follow the link, the following command was what I was looking for: svn update --set-depth=exclude <directory_name>
On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 3:05 PM, Mark Phippard <markp...@gmail.com> wrote: > Don't you just want this? > > http://blogs.open.collab.net/svn/2009/03/sparse-directories-now-with-exclusion.html > > Basically use the --depth feature to prune away what you do not want > rather than using svn rm. > > Mark > > > > On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 2:59 PM, David Cummings > <david.a.cummi...@gmail.com> wrote: >> I'm looking for a way to remove a directory from my working copy >> without it causing svn diff to report changes. >> >> I often use svn co and svn up with --depth files to checkout partial >> pieces of a repository. >> >> For example I have the following repository structure: >> ----trunk >> |------- folder1 >> |------- folder2 >> >> To checkout trunk and folder 1 I would do: >> svn checkout "file:///svn/project/tr...@head" -r HEAD >> --ignore-externals --depth files >> "/home/davey/ws/project_runtime/trunk3" >> svn update "/home/davey/ws/project_runtime/trunk3/folder1" -r HEAD --depth >> files >> >> This gives me a partial checkout of my repository. Most importantly >> though, if I do an svn diff I do not see any changes. >> >> Now sometimes I checkout everything, but then decide that I don't want >> certain folders in my working copy. If I remove them using svn rm, and >> then subsequently do an svn diff, I obviously see the deletion as a >> change. >> >> So I'm looking for a different command like svn rmlocal that would not >> report this diff (essentially removing the deleted dir from the >> .svn/entries). I can remove this data from the entries file, but it is >> a pain. Is there an svn command that allows me to do this? >> >> Thanks, >> David >> > > > > -- > Thanks > > Mark Phippard > http://markphip.blogspot.com/ >
