问题:

Is there a way to exclude all svn externals when doing a recursive update?

Is there a way to exclude only 1 of all of the svn externals when doing a recursive update?

Basically I'd like to cut down the svn update time, and a couple of the SVN externals that I have will just about never get updated.

回答1:

Yes, there is an option for this (to ignore all):

> svn update --ignore-externals

I don't know of any option to specifically ignore one or some externals while updating the rest.

回答2:

If you are using TortoiseSVN, you can do the same thing as "svn update --ignore-externals". Use the "Update to revision..." menu item instead of the normal "Update". On that dialog you have a "Omit Externals" checkbox.

回答3:

I'd recommend changing the default context menu items to have Update to Revision on the main context menu.

In the TortoiseSVN settings, go to 'Look and Feel', then uncheck items you want main folder context menu and check items you want in the submenu.

I have the following unchecked.

Checkout
Commit
Show Log
Check for modifications
Update to Revision

The great thing about having all these items is that they only show up when relevant, ie, when the directory is a working copy. So for a non SVN folder you will just get Checkout.