How do I edit and commit a single file from an SVN repository?

Question

Using Tortoise ( command line solution is ok too ) SVN - without creating a folder on repository side - what are the steps to checkout a single file, edit and check back in with comments, thanks!

Answer 1

1. Right click in Explorer where you want a Working Copy.
2. Choose Check Out. Might be in tortise's menu.
3. Enter Url and accept to get a Working Copy.
4. Make change to file.
5. Right Click in working copy. Choose commit.

OR

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/122107/checkout-one-file-from-subversion

Answer 2

AFAIK you cannot get a copy of a single file from SVN, a working copy is allways a directory. So you will need to check out a whole folder edit the file in question and then commit.

This was the case some time back(less than 3 months) and i doubt it has changed since

Answer 3

To check out a single file, you'll still need to check out its parent directory. From the command line, to check out https://svn.example.com/trunk/myfolder/index.html:

svn co https://svn.example.com/trunk/myfolder/ --depth empty
svn up myfolder/index.html

Now, you can edit and commit this file as usual, without checking out anything else.

TortoiseSVN also includes "checkout depth" in its svn checkout menu option; however, I don't know of a way to make Tortoise do svn up filename on a file that doesn't exist.

Answer 4

This is possible with TortoiseSVN but you must checkout the parent directory as well: 1. Create a working copy of the directory with no contents (use checkout depth "Only this item") 2. Click on the new working copy and select Repo-browser 3. Right click the file of choice in Repo-browser and select "update to revision"