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There is a nice feature in TFS called cloaking. In this feature, a developer can can determine which folders NOT to be copied in the working folder while checking out the sources. Can Svn support such a thing or not?

TonySalimi
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  • You really mean file that are in the repository, but that will not be checked out ? (so they can be pushed, but are kind of non-accessible after it)... because else I would have talked about ignoring files, but that the other way around... – FMaz008 Sep 16 '11 at 18:58
  • Yes, files are in repository, but should not be checked-out. They could be substituted by files from other repositories using svn:externals. Take a look at cloak feature at TFS. That is really useful. – TonySalimi Sep 16 '11 at 19:11

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Old question but I found this to work: (as found on http://svn.haxx.se/tsvnusers/archive-2006-06/0020.shtml)

Just switch each directory to svn://server/empty, like this: 

for i in boring* dull stupid etc 
do svn switch svn://server/empty $i 
done

This will delete all the versioned files in those directories, and thenceforth, doing "svn up" will not bring them back. To bring them back, just switch them back to where they were originally: 

for i in boring* dull stupid etc 
do svn switch svn://server/trunk/$i $i 
done
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You can use permissions to hide parts of the repository from certain people, but as far as working copy configuration, no SVN doesn't support anything like that.

Mac
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  • Event if he create a pre-checkout hook or something like it ? – FMaz008 Sep 16 '11 at 19:23
  • @FMaz008 You could probably achieve something like that with a hook, but again that's only on the server, and not something the client has control over. – Mac Sep 16 '11 at 20:45