Ryan Schmidt wrote on Wed, 2 Jun 2010 at 17:35 -0500: > On Jun 2, 2010, at 13:48, Paul Breen wrote: > > > I previously inquired about adding a –skipfilesmatchingsize option > > to the export subcommand. I have implemented that feature, and > > I was wondering if it has any chance of making it into the trunk > > directory for svn. It currently has performance issues, and I don't > > want to spend a lot of time optimizing the code if it's never going > > to be incorporated into the main development line. > > > > If the feature is not acceptable as described in my previous > > message, could it be made acceptable if it were expanded somehow to > > make it of more general use? Maybe by using checksums instead of > > file size or, more ambitiously, I was thinking something like > > a rsync subcommand that allows a person to synchronize an > > unversioned folder with an svn repository. > >
svn checkout --force (will convert a .svn-less tree into a working copy) > > Any comments or suggestions would be greatly appreciated. > > You recall that there was already a discussion in April when you > initially suggested this feature? > > http://svn.haxx.se/users/archive-2010-04/index.shtml#405 > > There were objections by myself and others that what you proposed was > already fairly easily accomplished using Subversion's existing > commands, and you were going to inquire with your client as to why > those existing methods weren't suitable. > > >
