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Re: RFC: future gfortran development and subversion
On Thu, Oct 20, 2005 at 02:10:36PM -0400, Daniel Berlin wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-10-20 at 07:25 -0700, Steve Kargl wrote:
> > On Thu, Oct 20, 2005 at 02:47:19PM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote:
> > > * Daniel Berlin:
> > >
> > > > You could simply do non-recursive checkouts (svn co -N) of the dirs you
> > > > want.
> > > > SVN doesn't care how you piece together the working copy.
> > >
> > > Doesn't "commit -N" cause the working copy to become fragmented, so
> > > that you cannot issue a working-copy-wide commit or diff anymore?
> >
> > yes.
>
> I actually forgot the dumbest and easiest solution, that works fine,
> that is, to use svn switch.
>
> checkout a gcc copy.
>
> go to the gcc subdir
>
> svn switch svn+ssh://kargl@gcc.gnu.org/svn/gcc/emptydir ada
>
> repeat for each dir you don't want.
>
> This allows update and commit and all others to work from the top-level
> dir without any problems. It also should work okay through merges and
> other things.
>
Thank you. I've removed most of the C++, java, and ada
code. My working copying is now 290MB.
I spent nearly 5 hours yesterday reading the svn FAQ, mailing list
archives, and the docs. I never came across this solution.
> Sorry, this solution slipped my mind.
> I apologize.
No need to apologize. I'm sure you have plenty of issues to
address. With this tidbit of info, I withdraw an objections
with moving to svn.
--
Steve