Re: Using up double diskspace for working copies (Was Re: Details for svn test repository)

2005-02-12 Thread Daniel Berlin
> Right - using svn programs to directly modify the svk depot (which is it's > local 'repository'), is touchy. You *can* do it, but you have to be quite > careful about the svk:* properties used to track merges and mirrors. > Generally there's no need, other than perhaps using a read-only client t

Re: Using up double diskspace for working copies (Was Re: Details for svn test repository)

2005-02-12 Thread bd
Daniel Berlin wrote: On Fri, 2005-02-11 at 12:08 -0500, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: On Fri, Feb 11, 2005 at 12:00:26PM -0500, Daniel Berlin wrote: Because if it's a show stopper, then so will be arch, monotone, or any of our other replacements (they all either store the entire repo on your disk, or

Re: Using up double diskspace for working copies (Was Re: Details for svn test repository)

2005-02-12 Thread Kevin Puetz
Daniel Berlin wrote: > >> > >> > You can't mix svn and svk commits against the same repo. It confuses >> > svk (not svn). >> > >> > You can use svk readonly, of course. >> >> Actually, that's not quite right. While svk's depot must only be used by >> svk, the usual usage is to mirror a regular s

Re: Using up double diskspace for working copies (Was Re: Details for svn test repository)

2005-02-12 Thread Daniel Berlin
> > > > You can't mix svn and svk commits against the same repo. It confuses svk > > (not svn). > > > > You can use svk readonly, of course. > > Actually, that's not quite right. While svk's depot must only be used by > svk, the usual usage is to mirror a regular subversion repository with > svk

Re: Using up double diskspace for working copies (Was Re: Details for svn test repository)

2005-02-12 Thread bd
Daniel Berlin wrote: You can't mix svn and svk commits against the same repo. It confuses svk (not svn). You can use svk readonly, of course. Actually, that's not quite right. While svk's depot must only be used by svk, the usual usage is to mirror a regular subversion repository with svk into a sv

Re: Using up double diskspace for working copies (Was Re: Details for svn test repository)

2005-02-11 Thread Daniel Berlin
On Fri, 2005-02-11 at 12:08 -0500, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > On Fri, Feb 11, 2005 at 12:00:26PM -0500, Daniel Berlin wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > >Because if it's a show stopper, then so will be arch, monotone, or any > > > >of our other replacements (they all either store the entire repo on

Re: Using up double diskspace for working copies (Was Re: Details for svn test repository)

2005-02-11 Thread Daniel Berlin
On Fri, 2005-02-11 at 17:24 +, Richard Earnshaw wrote: > On Fri, 2005-02-11 at 17:11, Joern RENNECKE wrote: > > > Moreover, I often want just a quick look at the source, and a checkout > > has quite > > a long latency for that. > > It ought to be less bad for SVN than CVS, particularly for o

Re: Using up double diskspace for working copies (Was Re: Details for svn test repository)

2005-02-11 Thread Joern RENNECKE
Richard Earnshaw wrote: Huh? Why would I want to copy the binaries? Sorry, I must have mis-understood. I thought you wanted to keep binaries of builds around so that you could work out quickly *when* a regression had been introduced, even if you hadn't tested a particular combination

Re: Using up double diskspace for working copies (Was Re: Details for svn test repository)

2005-02-11 Thread Richard Earnshaw
On Fri, 2005-02-11 at 17:11, Joern RENNECKE wrote: > Moreover, I often want just a quick look at the source, and a checkout > has quite > a long latency for that. It ought to be less bad for SVN than CVS, particularly for older code, and branches. Though I agree it's not going to be zero. > An

Re: Using up double diskspace for working copies (Was Re: Details for svn test repository)

2005-02-11 Thread Joern RENNECKE
Richard Earnshaw wrote: Why do you need to keep the source around at all (unless you are actively working on that version)? All you need is the single revision number string and you can guarantee to get exactly that source code back at any time you want, should you need it. Only while the

Re: Using up double diskspace for working copies (Was Re: Details for svn test repository)

2005-02-11 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
On Fri, Feb 11, 2005 at 12:00:26PM -0500, Daniel Berlin wrote: > > > > > > > >Because if it's a show stopper, then so will be arch, monotone, or any > > >of our other replacements (they all either store the entire repo on your > > >disk, or have stuff in the working copy), and we will be stuc

Re: Using up double diskspace for working copies (Was Re: Details for svn test repository)

2005-02-11 Thread Daniel Berlin
> > > >Because if it's a show stopper, then so will be arch, monotone, or any > >of our other replacements (they all either store the entire repo on your > >disk, or have stuff in the working copy), and we will be stuck with cvs > >until everyone is happy to use up double/whatever disk. > >

Re: Using up double diskspace for working copies (Was Re: Details for svn test repository)

2005-02-11 Thread Richard Earnshaw
On Fri, 2005-02-11 at 16:35, Joern RENNECKE wrote: > Actually, having one copy of the entire repository might be cheaper than > having > several dozen double checkouts. But then, having no firm, easily memorized > revision numbers is certainly a much larger issue. I understand that > distribut

Re: Using up double diskspace for working copies (Was Re: Details for svn test repository)

2005-02-11 Thread Joern RENNECKE
Daniel Berlin wrote: Then you are correct, the only way to do what you want is export, or cp excluding the .svn directories. Do you consider this a show stopper, or are you willing to export your trees? No, I don't think it is a show stopper, but it is a drawback. The plan is to have the re

Using up double diskspace for working copies (Was Re: Details for svn test repository)

2005-02-11 Thread Daniel Berlin
On Fri, 2005-02-11 at 15:29 +, Joern RENNECKE wrote: > Daniel Berlin wrote: > > > > > > >>Because svn keeps an extra pristine copy for checkouts, I'll have to use > >>svn export for > >>automatic regression tests. > >> > >> > > > >I don't understand why. > >Is this because of the am