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Re: svn read of the binutils development repository?

>>>>> "Daniel" == Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org> writes:

 Daniel> On Wed, Apr 12, 2006 at 09:47:18AM -0400, Paul Koning wrote:
 >> Sure.  But I don't understand the statement that Subversion
 >> doesn't support doing so -- it does.  You can check out any
 >> subtree you want.

 Daniel> Have you looked at the layout of the src tree lately?
 Daniel> Binutils is not a subtree.

 Daniel> src/Makefile.tpl src/gas src/bfd src/gdb

 Daniel> et cetera.  We want gas, bfd, and Makefile.tpl, but not GDB.

 Daniel> You can make SVN not update parts of the tree, e.g. by svn
 Daniel> switching subtrees to an empty directory.  But that doesn't
 Daniel> help you with the checkout.

Externals can do this.  

	  paul
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