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CVS Checkout to a directory

How do i check out a specific directory from CVS and omit the tree leading up to that directory? EX. Id like to checkout to this directory C:/WebHost/MyWebApp/www My CVS Project directory structure is MyWebApp/Trunk/www How do i omit the Trunk and MyWebApp directories? ...

Subversion large repos import/checkout

My normal work flow to create a new repository with subversion is to create a new repos, do a checkout of the repos root, create my branches tags and trunk folders and place in the trunk my initial files. Then I do a commit of this "initial import", delete the checked out repos from my hard drive and do a checkout of the trunk. Then I ca...

SVN checkout filtered by file extension?

I have a home-grown automated build script in the form of a DOS batch file. In part of that script, I check out (with "svn checkout") a section of our SVN repository that includes a bunch of third-party stuff that's used in our projects. This batch file performed pretty well for a long time, but now people have checked in lots of fluff...

SVN checkout ignore folder

Can I ignore a folder on svn checkout? I need to ignore DOCs folder on checkout at my build server. edit: Ignore externals isn't an option. I have some externals that I need. ...

[easy] SVN checkout with svn protocol

I've been using SVN a lot as a single user on a single computer Now i'd like to share my stuff across multiple computers So far I've been checking out from "file://c:/myproject" i'd like to checkout from "svn://mycomputer/myproject" How can I map the first into the second? ...

How can only the files that were modified in a range of SVN revisions be checked out?

Is it possible to checkout only those files from a SVN repository that were modified in a revision or range of revisions, without checking out any files that were not modified? ...

Difference between checkout and export in SVN

What is the exact difference between SVN checkout and SVN export? From what I know, export does not include the .svn directory which include metadata, and checkout included that .svn directory. Yet, my colleague had this problem recently that there is a different behaviour for the stuff compiled from sources that is checkout and export...

Tortoise CVS: Can project list be made persistant (for checkout) ?

Since I upgraded Tortoise (1.10.4), the list of projects during checkout are no longer persistent -- I have to use "Fetch List" every time (unless I already know the module name). Does anybody know of a method to make them "stick" ? ...

What are some tips to make my project compile on a fresh checkout every time?

More times than I'd like to admit I've had people new to a project do a checkout only to find they are missing various resources, dll's, settings. I'd like to get in the proper habit of having my projects compilation be smooth as can be from a fresh checkout. What are some tips or suggestions on how to structure my projects so they do...

Why does vwd.webinfo always get automatically checked out from source control?

We have a 2008 solution that has a file system website as part of the solution. This solution is under source control with Team Foundation Server. Every time the solution is closed it either checks out a file called vwd.webinfo or attempts to and complains that someone else already has it checked out. Removing the file from source contr...

Why does Visual Studio want to check-out a File when opened?

Why does Visual Studio want to check-out a File when opened? I just double click the file to open it and Visual Studio wants to check it out. I did not make any changes to it. I just opened it. i.e. In Solution Explorer I double click ctlEmployeeEdit.vb and the first thing Visual Studio wants to do is check-out that file. I got VS set...

How can I do a conditional checkout using properties in svn?

Is there a possibility to checkout from a repo based on the properties of a svn-versioned file? That would be a special kind of sparse checkout. For example to checkout only files with "svn:corelib" == "yes". Or is the only chance just to checkout the whole repo and to delete the unwanted files later? For example with a script that pull...

Is there any way to clone a git repository's sub-directory only?

I've got my git repo here: http://github.com/nicksergeant/finisht/tree/master Which, at the root, has two sub-dirs: /finisht /static When this was in SVN, /finisht was checked out in one place, while /static was checked out elsewhere, like so: svn co svn+ssh://[email protected]/home/admin/repos/finisht/static static Is there anywa...

StarTeam not checking out to working folder?

I'm using StarTeam 4.1 and I'm trying to use the command line version of StarTeam to checkout all the files of the folder. But for some reason, instead of checking out to C:\Installation, it checks out to C:\400\Installation. In the GUI, StarTeam clearly states that the complete working folder path is C:\Installation. If I run stcmd.e...

Why don't files automatically get checked out from VSS when I edit them?

This is driving me crazy and has resulted in lost work (not much, at least). Normally, when I edit a file in Visual Studio, it's supposed to automatically check that file out in source safe. On multi-project solutions (e.g., web app with class libraries), sometimes none of the files in one project would automatically get checked out, th...

Auditing transactions in an eCommerce add-on

Hi I'm puzzling over how I might achieve the following: We deal with a number of customers that have various eCommerce implementations, some using paypal, eBay store, .net cart and various others. We want to provide the customers with some simple code that they can add to their checkout process that will track the transaction and prov...

Is there a Subversion Checkout Hook or something similar?

I'm using a subversion repository and I want to know whenever somebody asks my repository for a checkout; like a 'svn co' or an 'svn up'. Is there a hook or some other method that I can use so that a script is run, or email sent, whenever somebody requests information from my svn server? How can I achieve this without relying on apache l...

How to safely use VSS when using a working directory on a thumb drive?

I know putting code into VSS in general is as safe as putting money into a mutual fund run by Bernard Madoff, but I don't have the luxury of ditching it for subversion. That said, I need to be able to write code on two machines, I'm considering checking out code to a flash thumb drive. Anyone know in advance what I should/shouldn't do ...

Convert an SVN checkout to use git (git-svn)

I work with software that is kept in svn for version control. I would like to use git (git-svn) however the software requires lots of setup and configuration before it can be used. There are tools that take care of all of the setup, including checking out all the code via svn. All the documentation for git-svn (I've been able to find) r...

How to turn off 'silent' checkouts in VS2008/TFS

I am constantly noticing that I have files checked out for editing that I did not intend to. This cannot be a good thing. Can I have it prompt me? ...