On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 12:17 PM, Daniel Shahaf <d...@daniel.shahaf.name> wrote: > Markus Schaber wrote on Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 15:57:00 +0200: >> Hi, Stefan, >> >> Von: Stefan Sperling [mailto:s...@elego.de] >> > > So I'm not only "detaching" subdirectories, but also "re-implanting" >> > > them afterwards. >> > >> > Sounds like what you really need is this as-of-yet not implemented >> > feature: >> > http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=3625 >> >> Yes, that one would definitely help. :-) >> >> Maybe extending "svn diff" and "svn patch" to preserve >> copy/rename/history information would already be half of that >> implementation? A "shelve" subdir under .svn/ could then be used to >> store the diff files. >> > > That's one solution. > > However, wc.db already has the ability to represent multiple related > trees (via op_depth), so another way would be to extend that into > storing not only the post-'svn patch' trees too, and then merging them > in the usual way. (which may require repository communication, or > storing the pre-patch tree locally too...) > > Perhaps you'd be interested in contributing to the implementation of > this feature?
Because it interests me, I implemented a simple 'detach' script, which you can find here: http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/subversion/trunk/tools/client-side/detach.py It's very hacky, and I do, of course, disclaim any harm which may come to your data which may come as a result of using this script. I am interested in any bug reports, however. -Hyrum -- uberSVN: Apache Subversion Made Easy http://www.uberSVN.com/
