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Asked: 2026-05-18T09:58:42+00:00

If a Subversion working copy is a partial check-out from a repository, using –depth

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If a Subversion working copy is a partial check-out from a repository, using --depth and/or --set-depth (perhaps with exclude), is there a way to reveal the nodes that are ‘missing’ (either recursively, or non-recursively)? I don’t mean missing in the sense of svn status and ! where a node was checked out but deleted locally without telling SVN. Rather, I mean a node in the repository that was not been checked out from the repository originally, or has been excluded later.

svn info can be used to show the depth of a node.

ls or dir might be compared with svn ls. (ls -r BASE doesn’t bahave as I’d expect to get a working copy listing.)

svnversion will indicate that the WC is partial with a ‘P’.

(There seems to be no --dry-run option to use in conjunction with --set-depth for svn update. Likewise svn diff -rBASE:HEAD --depth=immediates does not produce the information I seek either.)

Is there some direct method? It would be nice to have a list of ‘eligible’ nodes available for checkout or update.

Thanks.

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  1. Editorial Team
    svn ls --depth immediates .

    will show the child files and folders of the current folder even if they have not been checked out.

    Diffing that with the output of ls -1 yields the list of not-checked-out files/folders:

    svn ls --depth immediates . > immediates.txt
ls -1 > checkedout.txt
diff immediates.txt checkedout.txt
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