On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 06:07:05AM -0600, Ryan Schmidt wrote: > On Dec 20, 2011, at 06:08, Mojca Miklavec wrote: > > Is there any way to prevent > > deleting existing contents within the scope of command line arguments? > > A workaround is to use something like > > if [ ! -d "project" ]; then > > svn co --depth=empty $URL > > fi > > but I would be really happy if there was some command like: > > > > "please checkout $URL, but no need to fetch any files yet, in > > particular don't fetch 'branches'; on the other hand please don't > > delete 'trunk' and 'tags' if already present" > > I don't think that exists as a built-in command as such. But probably playing > with the depth settings you can get what you want. I am not very familiar > with these settings however so I cannot advise. >
svn-viewspec.py might help: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/subversion/trunk/tools/client-side/svn-viewspec.py
