Robert Whitaker wrote on Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 08:45:32 -0700: > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: Daniel Shahaf <d...@daniel.shahaf.name> > > Sent: Friday, August 17, 2012 10:03 AM > > > > % mkdir d > > % cd d > > % mkdir notes notes/commit-access-templates > > % svn co -q > > http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/subversion/trunk/notes/commit-access-templates/ > > notes/commit-access-templates/ > > % svn co -q --force http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/subversion/trunk/ ./ > > > > I don't have a recent build to test with (and the behaviour might have > > changed at some point), but the above is what I try first. > > > > Does that answer your question? > > > > Hello Daniel, > > Thanks for the reply. I am running 1.6.17 and the above sequence of commands > did not work. The second "checkout" failed even with the --force flag. I > show a copy-and-pasted session below showing my failed attempt. > > Even if the second "checkout" had succeeded, it would have just created a full > checkout of the tree under "trunk" but what I was interested in originally was > in creating a "sparse" checkout (not a "full" checkout). >
Sorry, missed that detail. > I am still curious if a sparse checkout is possible retroactively, so if you > have any further insights I would appreciate further comments. The example I > showed in my original post is _VERY_ easy to reproduce in your own repository > locally if you want to play around and test possible solutions. > Unfortunately I can't easily test solutions as I don't have a moderately recent 1.7.x or trunk build at the moment.
