Question

I have some SVN projects with this folder structure

project/trunk/
project/branches/1.x
project/branches/2.x
project/branches/3.x

• First checkout, I have the RW rights on all branches, and checkout everything
• Then supopose that I change the rights on the server, and have only RW on branch 1.x, nothing on the others

-> If I delete on my working copy the branch 2 and 3, they appears as missing and every update recreate them (even if I don’t have read rights on server, I suppose its some kind of local tortoisesvn cache)

-> If I make a clean checkout everything is ok, but it’s obviously not what I want to do every time rights changes.

-> I could put all theses branches in ignored, but if rights change on server and I’m not aware of it, I won’t have access to them unless I un-ignore them.

PS: clean up does not resolve anything in this case

Is there a way to force tortoise to synchronize my working copy, and avoid the “missing file” problem caused by the windows manual delete ?

Answer 1

Starting with version 1.5, Subversion supports sparse checkouts. Instead of doing a full checkout of a repository, you can define the checkout depth per directory. It is also possible to change the depth settings at any point in time using svn update.

In your case, after you have lost the rights for project/branches/1.x you could remove it from your working copy using:

svn update --set-depth exclude project/branches/1.x

Also, see this question.