Taming the Monolith: Using SVN Sparse Checkouts to Save Disk Space
Stop downloading gigabytes of unnecessary data. Learn how to use SVN sparse checkouts and --set-depth to optimize your local workspace in monolithic repositories.
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Stop downloading gigabytes of unnecessary data. Learn how to use SVN sparse checkouts and --set-depth to optimize your local workspace in monolithic repositories.
Apache Subversion supports sparse checkouts via the --depth option, allowing a working copy to track only a subset of the repository tree. This is typically managed using svn update --set-depth to toggle between empty , files , immediates , and infinity . A challenge arises when performing merges into a working copy configured with sparse depth settings. Bec