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Rabarberski
Rabarberski

Reputation: 24942

How to checkout a subfolder from a local svn copy (and not the svn server)?

For some simple Windows batch script, I want to temporarily create a copy of a certain folder in an local working copy of an svn repository at a certain revision. I do not want to checkout directly from the svn server (because then my script needs to know what the server address is, and potentially I would need to authenticate etc.) And I can not just copy the subfolder, as the hidden .svn folder is higher up.

I have been trying some variations on (with the repo folder containing the .svn hidden folder):

svn co file:///E:/repo/paper@48 E:/temprepo

But that doesn't work. My Windows 7 command prompt answers with

svn: E180001: Unable to connect to a repository at URL 'file:///E:/repo/paper'
svn: E180001: Unable to open an ra_local session to URL
svn: E180001: Unable to open repository 'file:///E:/repo/paper'

I am doing something wrong, or is what I am trying impossible?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 2005

Answers (2)

Kasun Gajasinghe
Kasun Gajasinghe

Reputation: 2776

Your question seems bit ambiguous. I can think of two ways of looking at this.

  1. Assuming you just want a copy of a sub-folder in a svn working copy WITHOUT the .svn folders. You can use svn export to copy a given sub-folder of a working copy like this - svn export E:\repo\paper E:\temprepo.

  2. Quote:

    And I can not just copy the subfolder, as the hidden .svn folder is higher up.

    EDIT: This file structure is only available in subversion v 1.7. In a subversion client with version 1.6.x sub-folders in a working copy should be self-contained. Meaning you may duplicate it to another place, and do subversion operations like svn update etc. in it.

Upvotes: 2

pyfunc
pyfunc

Reputation: 66739

As you have rightly mentioned in your question, you have working copy of subversion repository and not the repository it self.

You can check out only for a repository that happens to be your subversion server.

When you check out your repository, a pristine version of the repository contents are located inside the ".svn" folders.

This is how svn shows you the diff when your working copy differs from the original contents without routing it's request to server.

It also keeps meta data of your server address and other information which you can see when you do svn info. This also contains your server address as svn url.

Your working copy and the ".svn" folders fully recognize the repository from which it was checked out.

I hope you have understood why you can not checkout from your own working copy.

Upvotes: 1

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