[svk-devel] svk as svn mirroring mechanism

[Justin Patrin]

Aha....ok, well I'm using 1.08 since that's what I could find a build
for for win32 and that's what's marked stable in Gentoo. I'll see if I
can get a 2.0 beta. Thanks much.

On 12/2/06, Derek Atkins <warlord at mit.edu> wrote:
> 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.
> >
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> > Justin Patrin
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Justin Patrin