From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 12090 invoked by alias); 26 Mar 2007 14:45:23 -0000 Received: (qmail 12081 invoked by uid 22791); 26 Mar 2007 14:45:22 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from return.false.org (HELO return.false.org) (66.207.162.98) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Mon, 26 Mar 2007 15:45:16 +0100 Received: from return.false.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by return.false.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1D34C4B267; Mon, 26 Mar 2007 09:45:15 -0500 (CDT) Received: from caradoc.them.org (dsl093-172-095.pit1.dsl.speakeasy.net [66.93.172.95]) by return.false.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 086264B262; Mon, 26 Mar 2007 09:45:14 -0500 (CDT) Received: from drow by caradoc.them.org with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1HVqRe-0006HN-KC; Mon, 26 Mar 2007 10:45:14 -0400 Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2007 14:57:00 -0000 From: Daniel Jacobowitz To: DJ Delorie Cc: binutils@sourceware.org Subject: Re: SVN for src (was Re: Binutils 2.18 prep) Message-ID: <20070326144514.GA23900@caradoc.them.org> Mail-Followup-To: DJ Delorie , binutils@sourceware.org References: <46025531.90105@st.com> <20070322150018.GA4566@caradoc.them.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.14+cvs20070313 (2007-03-13) X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact binutils-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: binutils-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2007-03/txt/msg00374.txt.bz2 On Thu, Mar 22, 2007 at 12:11:15PM -0400, DJ Delorie wrote: > Daniel Jacobowitz writes: > > You know, I think we can do this even without having to butcher the > > layout of the repository. Check out a directory containing just the > > script, and have it use "svn switch -N" at the end to pick up the top > > level files. > > The thing to watch out for is an svn update to a different revision, > which has a tendency to re-populate all the missing directories. I've > gotten bitten by this a few times trying to track down gcc bugs by > date; it kept pulling in the ada/java sources and I kept trying to > delete them. Can you be more specific? I tried to reproduce this, to find problems with my tentative plan, but I couldn't. It might be disrupted if you use -r before and after the creation of a directory, but I think only for that directory. -- Daniel Jacobowitz CodeSourcery