Hi Bert, Thanks very much. Worked fabulously!
Gavin "Beau" Baumanis On 11/05/2011, at 11:38 AM, Bert Huijben wrote: > > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Gavin "Beau" Baumanis [mailto:gavin.bauma...@palcare.com.au] >> Sent: woensdag 11 mei 2011 3:22 >> To: Subversion Users >> Subject: Chkeckout only a portion of a repoistory >> >> Hi there, >> >> We have a web application that uses Jenkins CI for keeping our staging > server >> up to date via svn update. >> >> Due to not thinking abut it properly in the beginning, >> The staging site is actually a working copy of the entire repo (branches > and >> tags included) >> >> We however, only require the trunk. >> >> Is there a way, so that I can remove the branches and tags from a working >> copy, leaving the trunk in place AND >> not have any subsequent updates replace the now missing directories and >> still have a clean WC? > > If you call > svn up --set-depth exclude PATH > > on your tags and branches folder, they should be completely removed from > your working copy, leaving a marker that they shouldn't be updated. (You can > bring them back by --set-depth infinity on a parent or an explicit update of > PATH itself). > > This option is available for directories since Subversion 1.6. (In 1.7 you > can also use it to exclude a specific file) > > Bert
