[SVN-4445] Setting sticky depth without grabbing content immediately.

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: 1.8.x
• Fix Version/s: ---
• Component/s: cmdline client
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Subversion Importer
• Created: 05/Nov/13 12:24
• Updated: 05/Nov/13 13:05

Description

Following the discussion in the users@ mailing list with the same title, I'm
creating this enhancement request.
For reference, here is the initial message:
http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/subversion-users/201311.mbox/%3C527773EC.5050802%40free.fr%3E

Basically, I'd like to prepare a working copy for a system that will do the
final svn update and over which I have no control. As a result, I'd like to
avoid, if possible, that this final update does nothing.
This is why I propose to add the "--record-only" option to "svn update --set-depth"
This would most useful with external (and unmodifiable) systems that behave this
way:

If working copy does not exist, do a checkout
If working copy exist, do an option-less update

With the above option, it would be possible to prepare a working copy with the
appropriate depths set while not actually retrieving the data, and thus saving
bandwidth and time.

Original issue reported by obones