On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 11:15:12AM -0700, frame wrote: > Hi, > > Our team's whole repository tree is like: > > build.xml > 1.txt > 2.txt > dir_a/ > dir_big_and_un_related_to_me/ > .. > dir_h/ > > The dir_big_and_un_related_to_me/ is very, very big and it is not relevant > to my own work. Every time, when I run "svn update" at the top, I hope that > directory is ignored. But I don't know how to do it. I am wondering if svn > has a feature for this purpose.
Use the 'sparse checkout' feature. svn update --set-depth exclude dir_big_and_un_related_to_me > The whole tree has been checked out to my local area. When getting a fresh checkout you might want to something like this: svn checkout --depth empty URL svn ls (view items that could be here) for each item of interest: svn checkout --set-depth infinity item_of_interest For more information, see: http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.7/svn.advanced.sparsedirs.html
