Re: svn checkout suggestion

Rasmus Lerdorf wrote: > 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 <snip> Rasmus this is brilliant. You should add this to the manual for posterity in your new shiny checkout of awesomeness. :) Greg