Re: SVN question

[Richard Lewis <rtf@jabble.com>]

Florent Rougon <f.rougon@free.fr> writes:

> Frank Küster <frank@debian.org> wrote:
>
>> Go ahead.
>
> Done. I have a SVN question, though. I wanted to update the file
> properties in the three directories tetex-base/trunk, tetex-bin/trunk
> and tex-common/trunk in one revision only, but I couldn't. Of course, I
> could have done it if I had checked out the whole pkg-tetex
> repository,

you dont need a working copy at all, you can act directly on a url.
Multiple urls shold be supported with the --targets option:

svn propset svn:keywords "Id URL" --targets filelist

where filelist contains a list of urls to act on:

svn+ssh://svn.debian.org/pkg-tetex/path/to/file1
svn+ssh://svn.debian.org/pkg-tetex/path/to/file2


> but it seems stupid since it would store on disk a full copy of
> tetex-base, tetex-bin and tex-common for each and every tag as well as
> upstream branches (and double all this due to the .svn directories).
>
> I tried to get a 'sparse' working copy" looking like this:
>
> pkg-tetex
> |-- tetex-base
> |   `-- trunk
> |-- tetex-bin
> |   `-- trunk
> `-- tex-common
>     `-- trunk
>
> even with .svn directories in pkg-tetex, tetex-base, tetex-bin and
> tex-common. For this, I first checked out pkg-tetex with the -N option
> (non-recursive), then tetex-base, tetex-bin and tex-common also with -N
> and finally the three trunk directories without -N.
>
> The problem is that 'svn status' run in any of the directories checked
> out with -N didn't work as expected (commit also aborted before I had a
> chance to edit the log message, claiming the dir was not under version
> control). For instance, with pkg-tetex, I got:
>
>   % svn st
>   ?      tetex-base
>   ?      tetex-bin
>   ?      tex-common
>
> Similarly, in pkg-tetex/tetex-base:
>
>   % svn st
>   ?      trunk
>
>
> which means the directories marked with '?' are not under version
> control. Actually, I would say they are not _entirely_ under version
> control, and I would have hoped that it could be sufficient...
>
> Does anyone know how to make this work?

using -N says 'just get the files in this directory', so your
pkg-tetex/.svn/entries file had no entries for the directories
tetex-base tetex-bin and tex-common.  When you ran a second checkout,
you got 3 new independent working copies for these directories, but
subversion did not update pkg-tetex's .svn/entries file.  Instead you
should ave done svn up tetex-base/trunk (and similarly for the other
trunk dirs you wanted) inside pkg-tetex, as this would tell subversion
to update the current working copy, rather than create new working
copies.