svn checkout suggestion

One of the benefits of svn is that we can do cross-branch commit pretty easily now and thus avoid multiple similar commits with annoying MFH/MFB commit log messages that are hard to track. Please don't attempt to check out all of php/php-src or pecl. I made the mistake of checking out all of pecl and it was 3.4G because you get copies of the code for every tag and branch and we have a bunch. In order to do this better, I think the best way is to use the sparse directory feature documented here: http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.5/svn.advanced.sparsedirs.html It takes a bit of work to set up your checkout, but once you have done it, it becomes easy to work with. Here are my steps to creating a ~/src/ directory with the parts of the repository I commit to: # Create initial top-level src dir svn co http://svn.php.net/repository --depth empty src # Fetch the parts of the repository I care about svn co http://svn.php.net/repository/php http://svn.php.net/repository/pecl http://svn.php.net/repository/pear http://svn.php.net/repository/phpdoc http://svn.php.net/repository/systems http://svn.php.net/repository/web --depth immediates src # Now, in php-src get all tags and branch names, but only # populate trunk and the PHP_5_2 and PHP_5_3 branches cd ~/src/php/php-src svn up branches tags --set-depth immediates svn up trunk branches/PHP_5_2 branches/PHP_5_3 --set-depth infinity # In pecl get all tags and branch names, # but only checkout out trunk for each cd ~/src/pecl svn update * --set-depth immediates svn update */tags */branches --set-depth immediates svn update */trunk --set-depth infinity # Same idea for pear cd ~/src/pear svn update * --set-depth immediates svn update */tags */branches --set-depth immediates svn update */trunk --set-depth infinity cd ~/src/pear/packages svn update * --set-depth immediates svn update */tags */branches --set-depth immediates svn update */trunk --set-depth infinity # and pick up the remaining flat modules (systems, web) cd ~/src svn update */tags */branches --set-depth immediates svn update */trunk --set-depth infinity Once you have all this set up, you can then cd into any empty branch or tag directory and run: svn update --set-depth infinity to fully populate that directory on demand. and you can make changes across trunk and multiple branches and perhaps even make the corresponding fixes in the phpdoc tree! -Rasmus