Re: svn checkout suggestion

Greg Beaver wrote: > 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.htmlF8W >> :üI£ P‚Ç"&M > > <snip> > > Rasmus this is brilliant. You should add this to the manual for > posterity in your new shiny checkout of awesomeness. I wouldn't call it brilliant. It takes 37 commands to do what I could do in a couple in cvs. -Rasmus