title: How to consolidate multiple hidden .svn directories with Subversion 1.7+
body: <p>According to the <a href="http://subversion.apache.org/docs/release-notes/1.7.html#single-db" rel="noreferrer">Apache Subversion 1.7 release notes</a>:</p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>Instead of a .svn directory in every directory in the working copy, Subversion 1.7 working copies have just one .svn directory—in the root of the working copy.</p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p>Lets say there are multiple directories in a repository, and when I first checkout I only selectively checkout specific directories. This, as the documentation says, only creates a single .svn hidden folder at the top level directory.</p>
  
  <p>If however, I later on decide to checkout another directory, after the checkout completes, there will be another .svn directory within the newly checked out directory.</p>
  
  <p>The implications of this is that if I try to do a commit from the root level, it will only be aware of the directories that were originally checked out. I will also have to a commit for any subsequent checkouts individually.</p>
  
  <p>Is there anyway to change this behaviour or make the two hidden .svn directories merge together? Or will I have to do something like check out the entire repository directory structure the first time I do a checkout?</p>