On 8/23/2012 11:43 AM, Ian Lepore wrote: > On Thu, 2012-08-23 at 11:17 -0400, Ken Menzel wrote: >> >> I found two good primers: >> http://mebsd.com/configure-freebsd-servers/update-freebsd-source-tree-using-subversion-svn.html >> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/articles/committers-guide/article.html#SUBVERSION-PRIMER >> >> The second primer in the committer handbook seems to indicate that it >> is difficult to run an SVN mirror. This appears to me to be the >> biggest drawback. I have been using CVS and perforce for years, but >> subversion is new to me. > > It may be difficult to run an svn mirror that allows you to commit > locally and get those changes back to the project, but running a > read-only mirror is trivial. The script I run nightly from cron to sync > my local mirror is: > > #!/bin/sh > # > # svnsync to pull in changes from FreeBSD to my local mirror. > # > svnsync sync file:///local/vc/svn/base > > I can't remember how I initially created and populated the mirror, but > it's likely I grabbed a snapshot of the mirror at work and brought it > home on a thumb drive (just to avoid initial network DL time). > > -- Ian Thanks Ian, The shame of it is I just setup a new read-only mirror on CVS about a month ago! The initial download did take quite awhile.
I hope some doc committers can add this information to a wiki or update the committer handbook to reflect the Read only options. In the mean time I found some articles that may help others: http://csoft.net/docs/svnsync.html.en http://www.kirkdesigns.co.uk/mirror-svn-repository-svnsync http://blog.notreally.org/2006/11/30/setting-up-a-subversion-mirror-repository-using-svnsync/ http://blogs.collab.net/subversion/2007/08/mirroring-repos/ http://wordaligned.org/articles/how-to-mirror-a-subversion-repository Ken _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"