On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 5:33 AM, coolie <pcoul...@senscient.com> wrote: > > I have exactly the same issue - I want to inhibit checkout of all tags (and > branches) folders, but still be able to do an update from the root. I've > read the replies on this post and none seem to solve the problem. Did you > find a simple solution? Ideally this should be a property set on the root > folder a bit like svn:ignore so that it is registered at the server. Looks > like I'll just have to bite the bullet and write a co script that everyone > has to run to do the initial checkout (don't have Python or Perl). I don't > know where the depth information is held for each folder - maybe there is > some way of modifying this file? > > As I understand it you would do the following: > - checkout root (immediate files and folders only, which includes the > script) > - run the script, which would do the remaining checkout (but only the > immediate children of tags or branches folders) > - updating the root hereafter will not update sub-folders of tags or > branches folders > > Also need a script to modify the tree for existing checkouts. This would > delete the tags sub-folder contents from the local disk and set the co depth
Take a look at the svn-viewspec.py script for an example of such a script: http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/subversion/trunk/tools/client-side/ -- Thanks Mark Phippard http://markphip.blogspot.com/
