CC += dev@ Ryan Schmidt wrote on Sun, Jul 24, 2011 at 17:08:14 -0500: > > On Jul 24, 2011, at 16:57, Daniel Shahaf wrote: > > > Ryan Brothers wrote on Sun, Jul 24, 2011 at 17:42:43 -0400: > >> Is there a way to create a new top-level checkout of a subdirectory > >> with the 1.7 working copy format? > > > > Just copying a dir isn't supported. > > It worked fine in 1.6.x and earlier. I too frequently use this. > > > (the plan has been to provide a new > > subcommand for that, but that won't happen before 1.8) > > So 1.7 will be released with this regression in functionality? >
Yes. The 1.7 working copy format was designed to allow sharing pristines even between working copies, and this might happen in the 1.8 timeframe; but in 1.7 the answer is simply "No"[1].
