[svk-users] mirroring question

[Ruslan Zakirov]

On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 6:21 PM, Jeff Brown <jeff at jeffandbetsy.net> wrote:
> On 2/14/08, Ruslan Zakirov <ruz at bestpractical.com> wrote:
>  > On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 9:14 PM, Jeff Brown <jeff at jeffandbetsy.net> wrote:
>  >  > I have been tinkering with SVK as a solution to the problem of storing
>  >  >  Keynote presentations in SVN (Keynote presentations are really a
>  >  >  directory structure and Keynote deletes all the .svn directories each
>  >  >  time you save the presentation).  So far I have used SVK only locally
>  >  >  and it seems to work well for this.
>  >  >
>  >  >  Can I mirror an SVN repo with SVK, check Keynote presentations in
>  >  >  using SVK and then carry on from there doing updates/commits/etc.
>  >  >  using SVK?  What I think will happen is anyone can checkout directly
>  >  >  from the SVN repo using SVN and get what they need, they just won't be
>  >  >  able to commit changes easily.  Committers would need to be mirroring
>  >  >  with SVK.
>  >  >
>  >  >  Does all that sound right?  I want to confirm that this is going to
>  >  >  work the way that I think it will.
>  >  If all commiters are going to use central SVN repo then it's ok to
>  >  commit with SVN or SVK. There are no problems at all with such setup.
>  >
>  >  SVN people are only limited in actions when you make a mirror using
>  >  SVK and share this mirror with other people, it's really possible, but
>  >  is not recommended  way to use SVK.
>  >
>
>  I think the problem with SVN people committing is if they are going to
>  be committing, presumably they made some change to the Keynote
>  presentation.  When they saved that change from within Keynote,
>  Keynote will have deleted all of the .svn directories that are
>  scattered around their presentation so the SVN commit is going to fail
>  because the project doesn't look like it is even in SVN.
>
>  Am I missing something?
No, you're not.

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>  jb
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Best regards, Ruslan.