On Mon, Aug 12, 2019 at 7:19 AM Jens Restemeier <j...@playtonicgames.com> wrote:
> - would it be possible for "svn checkout" to only download the metadata > from > the server, and keep the workspace files unchanged? "svn checkout" can actually check out into a directory that already exists and contains files. When a file already in the directory has the same name as an incoming file, it is said to be "obstructing" and isn't changed, instead marking it as a conflict (I think). I don't remember the exact details. All I know is that I've done it before, it worked, and afterwards I had to do a "svn revert -R ." in the working copy to un-mark everything and then it was fine. I'm away from my computer so I can't copy and paste the exact explanation but the output of "svn help checkout" (and most likely the svn-book) should tell you about this.
