svn export only some directories

Question

How can I export from Subversion and ignore specific directories?

The repo contains the following structure.

/project1
    /doc
    /daily
    /history
    /sql
    /test_cases

To export the project to a production directory, I need to not include the test_cases and doc directories. The production directory should appear as:

/project1
    /daily
    /history
    /sql

The doc and test_cases are valuable and should be version controlled with the project. However, they should not be delivered to a production directory. Perhaps the doc would not do much damage, but if something is run from the test_cases directory, it could easily do damage to the production system.

I could rmdir the unwanted directories after the export, but there is no post-export hook. Is the best that can be done to use a script to do the export to production?

Answer 1

You can use the option --depth to control, which parts should be exported. In your case, it might look like this:

svn export --depth=files https://svn.example.org/project1 project1
svn export --depth=infinity https://svn.example.org/project1/daily project1/daily
svn export --depth=infinity https://svn.example.org/project1/history project1/history
svn export --depth=infinity https://svn.example.org/project1/sql project1/sql