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

[Rush Manbert]

Thanks Michael. I saw that and it might be made to work, but I need to 
use other clients as well.

- Rush

Michael Brouwer wrote:
> 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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