Hi: We use svn both on Linux and on PC.
On Linux: $svn --version svn, version 1.6.11 (r934486) compiled Feb 12 2014, 06:45:35 Copyright (C) 2000-2009 CollabNet. Subversion is open source software, see http://subversion.tigris.org/ This product includes software developed by CollabNet (http://www.Collab.Net/). ... On PC cygwin: $ svn --version svn, version 1.7.7 (r1393599) compiled Oct 8 2012, 20:42:17 Copyright (C) 2012 The Apache Software Foundation. This software consists of contributions made by many people; see the NOTICE file for more information. Subversion is open source software, see http://subversion.apache.org/ I believe on PC we are using TortoiseSVN. Now I found that something I can make it work on Linux, but not on PC cygwin command line: let's say the root of our repository is http://a_a_a/b_b_b/ROOT svn checkout --depth empty http://a_a_a/b_b_b/ROOT root //<--I don't want EVERYTHING under root. I am a big fan of sparse checkout. I want to cherry-pick what i want to my local copy cd root //now, command "ls" shows nothing there, command "svn ls" shows all the directories under http://a_a_a/b_b_b/ROOT. Let's say there is a directory called "docs' and I want it and all the contents within it svn update --depth infinity docs Now there is docs/ inside root/ in my local area. Let's say one month later, I don't need docs/ any more. And I want to remove it from my local area, NOT FROM SVN REPO! On Linux, I can make it work(inside root/.): rm -Rf docs/ svn update . docs/ directory won't be restored, because at root/ level, command "svn info ." shows the depth is empty and subversion understands I don't need docs/ anymore in my local copy. I want to do the same thing on PC cygwin and I can never make it. Please help. Thank you very much.
