[svk-devel] svk as svn mirroring mechanism

[Derek Atkins]

What version of SVK?  This was fixed in trunk a while ago
so the 2.0-beta series has this working.   You're right that
it doesn't work in the 1.0 series.

-derek

"Justin Patrin" <papercrane at gmail.com> writes:

> I'm looking into a way to do svn mirroring (due to network slowness
> between two sites) and saw the pages on using svk as a mirroring tool.
> I started by using the following:
>
> svk ls http://central.server/repo
> svk ls http://mirror.server/repo
> svk smerge -IB //mirror/central //mirror/mirror
>
> This does work to mirror but it has a nasty side-effect. The mirror
> server doesn't faithfully preserve the copy (branch, Add+) operations.
> This means that all copies, renames, and branches not only don't
> preserve the history of where they were branched from, they also take
> up a lot more disk space due to there being a physical copy of what in
> the original repo was directly linked (one of svn's strong points).
> This obviously doesn't make for a very exact mirror and isn't quite
> what I was hoping for.
>
> Note: the above was taken from a wiki and I don't entirely understand
> the ins and outs of svk or the commands that I ran. I have an
> understanding of distributed and non-distributed version control
> systems, but I don't know much specifically about svk.
>
> Any help would be appreciated. Other mirroring mechanisms would work
> (as long as they're free) or other commands to run with svk would also
> be great.
>
> Thanks much.
>
> -- 
> Justin Patrin
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