[PLUG] A Subversion Question

Scott Garman sgarman at zenlinux.com
Mon Dec 28 18:21:53 UTC 2009


Tim Wescott wrote:
> I'm a new Subversion user, so be gentle.
> 
> OK.  In Subversion you can check out a bunch of files, which creates a 
> working copy.
> 
> But I know you can also grab that same group of files without Subversion 
> setting up the working copy, which is handy when you're releasing code 
> from a tag and don't intend to ever, ever change it.  I've done it.  
> I've found how to do it in the documentation.  It's probably dead 
> simple.  But I can't find it!  Augh!
> 
> Any clues for the clueless?  I know I can just do a check out and 
> manually delete Subversion's tracking files, but I'd really rather 
> remember how to do it 'right'.

This is called doing an export of the code. So instead of doing an svn 
co you do an svn export.

Scott

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