Hello, I have a simple feature request for the svn update command, so I'd like some feedback on the utility of this feature. In the past, I've wanted to perform a sparse checkout of several different parts of a repository, so I've started by checking out the root using --depth=empty:
svn co --depth=empty svn+ssh://svn.example.com/trunk/ trunk/ >From here, if I wanted to download the contents of /trunk/a/b/ and /trunk/c/d/e/ without any extraneous files or directories, I would have to first check out all of the intermediate directories in the two paths explicitly: svn up --depth=empty trunk/a/ trunk/c/ svn up --depth=empty trunk/c/d/ svn up trunk/a/b/ trunk/c/d/e/ What I'm proposing is that svn update have a --parent flag that would perform these intermediate updates as necessary for the requested update paths, much like mkdir. Thanks, Klaus
