Klaus Ganser wrote on Tue, Nov 09, 2010 at 21:19:24 -0800: > 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
Sounds useful to me. > 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
