[svk-devel] Usage scenarios

[Alexandru Popescu ☀]

On 7/30/07, David Golden <xdaveg at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 7/29/07, Alexandru Popescu ☀ <the.mindstorm.mailinglist at gmail.com> wrote:
> > So, if I am getting it right working with a local svk is exactly the
> > same/extrmely similar to working with a local svn.
>
> It's almost exactly the same -- particularly since SVK is just using a
> local subversion repository behind the scenes.  What is particularly
> nice with SVK is that you can reference "//whatever" instead of
> "http://some/path/to/whatever", plus you also have all of SVK's nice
> smerge features.
>
> SVK is really just a utility for managing a local repository. E.g.
> SVK's "mirror" is just mirroring a remove subversion repository into
> your local subversion repository -- and then keeping track of that
> fact so that you can pull/push from the remote repository
> automatically.
>
> You can even delete a mirror link without losing the copy in your
> local repository -- only the link is severed.  Whatever is in your
> local repository is still there until you delete it.
>

Thanks for the details (the shortness of depotpath is not really a
good argument, though. The IDE support for svn is hidding this part).

Now, I am interested in the other part of my question :-).

bests,
./alex
--
.w( the_mindstorm )p.

> Regards,
> David
>
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