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Marco Demaio
Marco Demaio

Reputation: 34427

Tortoise SVN: how to svn update folder but NOT its subfolders?

This is probably something that has got a simple solution, but I'm probably not good at all in using Tortoise SVN.

I have this working direcetory that I checked out some time ago:

/folder
   file1
   file2
   /subfolder1
   /subfolder2

Now all I want to do is to SVN UPDATE my working directory only for the files in /folder, but NOT its subfolders. How do I do this?

Be aware that on the SVN server repository, /folder now contains new files file3, file4 that I want to see in the working directory after the SVN UPDATE.

EDIT since maybe it's not clear: subfolders MUST not be touched by SVN during SVN UPDATE, I don't want it to touch them at all. I tried to use Greg answer but it does not work and WARNING: subfolder1 and subfolder2 will get DELETED from your working copy during the update.

Thanks.

Upvotes: 12

Views: 20027

Answers (3)

Álvaro González
Álvaro González

Reputation: 146573

I normally perform partial updates from the "Check for modifications" dialogue. I launch it, I click on "Check repository" to get available updates and then right click on the exact items I want to fetch.

Upvotes: 11

Greg
Greg

Reputation: 21909

You can make SVN update non-recursively by using this command:

svn update --depth=files

The --depth argument can take the following parameters: empty, files, immediates or infinity

To do this using the GUI rather than command line, you can use Update to revision, which can be found here:

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and then chosing the Head revision, you can specify how recursive the update is: alt text

In your case, choosing Immediate children, including folders will be most appropriate.

Upvotes: 27

wkl
wkl

Reputation: 80031

Instead of Update, use TortoiseSVN's Update to Revision. Specify HEAD as the revision to update to (or whatever revision you want to update to), and then check off the box that says "Only update the top folder."

Greg's solution works fine if you issue an SVN command via TortoiseSVN or you're using a command line SVN client.

Upvotes: 1

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