[svk-devel] How to find out if remote repository has changed?

[Chia-Liang Kao]

On 08/01/07, Kuckuck Kuckuck <gentoopower at yahoo.de> wrote:
> Hallo Folks,
>
> I'm supposed to write a tool that checks in the background if there are
> differences in the local and remote repository. I have setup svk in the
> following way:
>
>  svk mirror https://myserver/HWConfig //HWConfig/trunk
>  svk sync //HWConfig/trunk
>  svk copy //HWConfig/trunk //HWConfig/local
>  svk checkout //HWConfig/local HWConfig
>
> Checkin, checkout, merge, pull
> everything is working as expected, but I haven't found a way to determine if
> there are differences between my local
> repository and the one on the remote https server.
> The idea behind my task is: my tool periodically checks if there is a
> network connection to the server then finds out if there is a change.
> Once there is a change the user is advised to merge or update. The vehicle
> will be then be locked and cannot move outside the network range until
> merge is complete.

If you run svk sm -Ct //HWConfig/local it should tell you if there are
changes from upstream to merge in..  try also --summary.

Cheers,
CLK