Change depth in existing SVN working copy without redownloading

Question

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:

Answer 1

I ended up hacking it:

• Manually edit the depth setting to "immediates" for projects *.
• Hard delete (not SVN delete) all children of projects except project1 and project2
• svn up projects

[*] To do this, open up projects/.svn/entries in a text editor and change

b125e325-6f7c-4931-9942-d1ea1ea1441a
X

into

b125e325-6f7c-4931-9942-d1ea1ea1441a







immediates
X

Note: That UUID-looking line is probably different per repo, and X is actually hex value 0x0C which I can't get displayed here on SO.