SVN for src (was Re: Binutils 2.18 prep)

[Daniel Jacobowitz]

On Thu, Mar 22, 2007 at 12:11:15PM -0400, DJ Delorie wrote:
> Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org> writes:
> > You know, I think we can do this even without having to butcher the
> > layout of the repository.  Check out a directory containing just the
> > script, and have it use "svn switch -N" at the end to pick up the top
> > level files.
> 
> The thing to watch out for is an svn update to a different revision,
> which has a tendency to re-populate all the missing directories.  I've
> gotten bitten by this a few times trying to track down gcc bugs by
> date; it kept pulling in the ada/java sources and I kept trying to
> delete them.

Can you be more specific?  I tried to reproduce this, to find problems
with my tentative plan, but I couldn't.  It might be disrupted if you
use -r before and after the creation of a directory, but I think only
for that directory.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery