[svk-users] Can only switch checkout root - WHY?

[Michael Brouwer]

If you are going to use svk as a client exclusively you should check
out the views feature in SVK2, this is most likely exactly what you
need.

Michael


On 9/6/07, Rush Manbert <rush at manbert.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> My first post here.
>
> We are in the process of moving a fairly complicated repository from CVS
> to SVN. We would also like to use SVK as a client for the repository.
>
> I had written a script that does a checkout using SVN. The checkout
> process is a little complicated because we want to do platform-specific
> checkouts. (For instance, we use third party libraries and each
> platform's installed libs directory is about 500 MB. We don't want to
> check out that much stuff that we don't need.) The SVN external feature
> doesn't cut it, and I finally discovered that you can use svn switch for
> this.
>
> So the checkout script checks out a top level directory, and some of its
> subdirectories are empty, but their properties contain metadata that
> points to their "real" content. We go to each directory, see if it has
> "real" content for the platform we're on (or all platforms), and switch
> it if it does.
>
> This works really well.
>
> I tried to do the same thing using SVK, but got the error message:
>
> "Can only switch checkout root."
>
> While this is nicely punctuated, with a period and everything, it seems
> like an artificial limitation. It makes SVK unusable for us.
>
> Is there some good reason why SVK doesn't support all of the switch
> scenarios that are supported by SVN?
>
> - Rush
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