Re: svn support for symbolic link?

2010-05-24 Thread Sarah George
svn handles symlinks by having a special file attribute for “this is a symlink” and the contents in its repository are just the directory to point the symlink at. This works well for simple cases, although I’ve found replacing symlinks with real files can cause some confusion if you’re not careful

Re: Choosing svn or git for small scale projects?

2010-05-24 Thread Sarah George
For me the key differences between git and svn come down to development model. In general, they can both be made to do the same things and which is easier to “bend to your will" comes down to how you prefer to work. If you have a defined group of people working on a project, and want to have a sin

Re: Using * in AuthzSVNAccessFile file

2010-05-24 Thread Sarah George
You can’t put in arbitrary wildcards, but you don’t have to specify a repository. If you use one project per repository (which I highly recommend), then you can just define [/trunk/passwords] *= or similar to set up permissions for the same path in all projects. — Sarah Codesion.com On 21 M

Re: SVN and NTFS - illegal character ':' in filename

2010-03-23 Thread Sarah George
As others have said, it sounds like there is a file in your repository with some characters in the filename that your OS doesn't like. The best fix is to find and rename the file. Here are some suggestions on how to do this if you're having trouble just checking it out. A checkout should tell you

locally cache repository

2010-03-21 Thread Sarah George
Hi, I was looking at the cool stuff you can do with apache's repository replication & write-through proxy options, and thinking "wow I wonder if there's an easy way to run something like this locally, so I can have lightning fast access to my regularly used svn repositories?" Is this somethin