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Subject: Re: svn checkout suggestion
From: greg@chiaraquartet.net (Greg Beaver)

Rasmus Lerdorf wrote:
> One of the benefits of svn is that we can do cross-branch commit pretty
> easily now and thus avoid multiple similar commits with annoying MFH/MFB
> commit log messages that are hard to track.
> 
> Please don't attempt to check out all of php/php-src or pecl.  I made
> the mistake of checking out all of pecl and it was 3.4G because you get
> copies of the code for every tag and branch and we have a bunch.
> 
> In order to do this better, I think the best way is to use the sparse
> directory feature documented here:
> 
> http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.5/svn.advanced.sparsedirs.html

<snip>

Rasmus this is brilliant.  You should add this to the manual for
posterity in your new shiny checkout of awesomeness.

:)
Greg