We have been working with CVS for years, and frequently find it useful to ‘sticky’ a single file here and there.
Is there any way to do this in subversion, specifically from TortoiseSVN?
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We have been working with CVS for years, and frequently find it useful to ‘sticky’ a single file here and there.
Is there any way to do this in subversion, specifically from TortoiseSVN?
Short answer: no.
Long answer:
Working copies are sticky to a branch by definition, as changing to a different branch means changing the base-Subversion-URL used to access the repository.
However sticky-revision files… that’s not a concept that Subversion has.
See:
One workaround might be to manually return the file to a specific revision after doing an update. Perhaps putting something like the following into a script.
Another workaround, as tweakt suggests, is to have a partial branch with just one file in it. This needs very careful management though and things can get a bit.. er… sticky 🙂 , if you’re not vigilant.