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I have a working copy of an entire SVN repository, but I want to change it into a sparse working copy because of disk space issues.
One way to do this would be:
svn up --set-depth immediates projects
svn up --set-depth infinity projects/project1
svn up --set-depth infinity projects/project2
However, that would first delete project1 and project2, then redownload them. This is really inconvenient, because they're very large and the server's upload speed is very low. I tried this (with another, smaller, part of the repo, as an experiment):
svn up --set-depth infinity projects/project1
svn up --set-depth infinity projects/project2
svn up --set-depth immediates projects
But then the last command just undoes the first 2.
How can I set the depth of a working copy without it immediately updating/changing it, so I can have the chance to correctly configure subdirectories first?
Or is there another way to accomplish what I want, e.g. by copying project1 and project2 to a safe location first?