Recently, I become involved in Zend Framework even more – this time not only developing using it (which I am doing for some 3 years now), but actually contributing back whenever I can. And I plan to dedicate even more hrs/week to work on this undoubtedly nice, yet complex piece of software.
So, lyrics aside – today I had to learn new Subversion trick (the hard way), so I am writing it down here, in hope that it saves some other hacker time to play PacMan.
Problem:
I needed to checkout into single working copy all relevant (to me) parts of ZF repository. Not doing separate checkouts for the trunk, then branches, then incubator, but having single checkout of repo which I can keep up to date by simple
svn up
directly from the root of working copy.
Now the problematic part: you never ever want to checkout whole ZF repository – need I mention that it is HUGE? So, what I actually wanted is to checkout the whole repo excluding some paths – such as lots of previous releases in tags/branches folders. Read the rest of this entry
