Question

I am using svn on MacOS X. I have set up a repository with access permissions similar to the following:

[/]
*=rw

[/group1]
*=
me=rw
groupMember1=rw
groupMember2=rw

Here “me” is my user name. When I do an “svn ls https://[e-mail]/svn/” then I correctly get:

/group1

Likewise, when I do an “svn ls https://[e-mail]/svn/group1” then I correctly get listed all files in that folder. Similarly, when I browse the repo as user “me” in my web browser I can access all information as I should.

However, when I do a checkout… “svn co https://[e-mail]/svn/” then only a “shallow copy” of the folder group1 is checked out, the files within that folder are not. Why is that? What am I missing?

P.S. I can use svn co to check out all group folders individually. This works. However, it is quite inconvenient.

Answer 1

Try specifying checkout depth implicitly, it might be not related to permissions (your access permissions seem correct).

svn checkout --depth infinity https://[e-mail]/svn/" my_working_copy