On Jun 22, 2011, at 21:01, Gavin Baumanis wrote: > Hi there everyone, > > I am just wondering if there is a short-hand way of excluding a directory > from a copy? > > I am wanting to create a branch from the trunk - but omit a specific > directory from the copy as it contains about 1GB of binary data that are not > required for the work that will be occurring in the branch. > > I can manually do it, by doing a WC->WC copy and then simply deleting the > sub-directory that I don't need, prior to committing the branch. > But I thought I would ask if there was a smarter and more efficient way to do > it first.
That should work. Since Subversion copies are efficient, the above shouldn't be a waste of space. You would only need to watch out that when you merge the branch back, that you don't end up accidentally removing this directory from the trunk as well.
