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majkinetor
majkinetor

Reputation: 9026

Exclude file pattern during svn checkout

I have a repository with many binary files that aren't really needed for development. I am aware of the shallow checkouts and depth settings but this doesn't seem to work with file patterns.

I want to be able to do something like:

svn checkout http://repo/project --ignore "*.pdf; *.doc; *.png"

The files are placed across the project so its not possible to exclude any single folder or several of them to be able to use depth option.

The main point is not to download all those binary files since that takes a lot of time.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 279

Answers (1)

bta
bta

Reputation: 45057

Unfortunately, Subversion doesn't currently give you a way to do this. You can ignore entire subdirectories, but not specific files based on a wildcard.

If there's enough of these binary files that it takes an onerous amount of time to check them out, then I suggest re-evaluating whether they should even be in your source code repository to begin with (as opposed to having their own repository).

Upvotes: 1

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