Re: Use of svnserve and Dropbox

2011-09-28 Thread Andreas Krey
On Wed, 28 Sep 2011 10:06:31 +, David Brodbeck wrote: ... > I suspect this is vi vs. Emacs all over again. People who have gotten used > to the svn user interface (or CVS, for that matter) will find git clumsy; > people who are used to git will find svn clumsy. Partly, yes. svn has a tendency

Re: Use of svnserve and Dropbox

2011-09-28 Thread David Brodbeck
On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 11:00 PM, Andreas Krey wrote: > > and Git is just not as user friendly or as polished. > > Don't make me rant. The svn user interface (at least the one that > is ontopic here, namely the 'svn' CLI) is horrible... I suspect this is vi vs. Emacs all over again. People who

Re: Use of svnserve and Dropbox

2011-09-25 Thread Les Mikesell
On Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 2:19 PM, Andreas Krey wrote: > ... >> If you want tags to be immutable, you know how to make them that way. > > I want them mostly immutable, that is, not accidentally, but with -f > (which is pretty much the way any other VCS is doing it). > > As far as I can see there is

Re: Use of svnserve and Dropbox

2011-09-24 Thread Andreas Krey
On Fri, 23 Sep 2011 14:59:40 +, Les Mikesell wrote: ... > If you want tags to be immutable, you know how to make them that way. I want them mostly immutable, that is, not accidentally, but with -f (which is pretty much the way any other VCS is doing it). As far as I can see there is no way of

Re: Use of svnserve and Dropbox

2011-09-23 Thread Les Mikesell
On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 1:00 AM, Andreas Krey wrote: > > Don't make me rant. The svn user interface (at least the one that > is ontopic here, namely the 'svn' CLI) is horrible, mostly due to > the fact that svn only pretends to have branches and doesn't have > tags at all. (It replaces them by a c

Re: Use of svnserve and Dropbox

2011-09-23 Thread Andreas Krey
On Fri, 23 Sep 2011 09:41:54 +, Thorsten Schöning wrote: ... > I didn't write any commit triggers regarding tags until now, but am > able to use them. Except that they behave like branches instead of tags. If you check out a tag and then commit into it, there will be exactly no warning. Neithe

Re: Use of svnserve and Dropbox

2011-09-23 Thread Les Mikesell
On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 12:18 AM, David Weintraub wrote: > > Having a publicly available Subversion repository is the best way. The > problem is what do you do if you don't have that. VPN's are the usual approach to having access over the internet to something that isn't public. OpenVPN is fair

Re: Use of svnserve and Dropbox

2011-09-23 Thread Thorsten Schöning
Guten Tag Andreas Krey, am Freitag, 23. September 2011 um 08:00 schrieben Sie: > The svn user interface (at least the one that > is ontopic here, namely the 'svn' CLI) is horrible, mostly due to > the fact that svn only pretends to have branches and doesn't have > tags at all. (It replaces them by

Re: Use of svnserve and Dropbox

2011-09-22 Thread Andreas Krey
On Fri, 23 Sep 2011 01:18:28 +, David Weintraub wrote: ... > I'm not a big fan of Git. Tracking patches and diffs is not the same > as version control, The track&diff part is in *addition* to version control proper. > and Git is just not as user friendly or as polished. Don't make me rant. T

Re: Use of svnserve and Dropbox

2011-09-22 Thread Daniel Shahaf
David Weintraub wrote on Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 01:18:28 -0400: > Thanks for all the replies. > > Yeah, I figured this wouldn't be a good idea. There's no way to > prevent multiple users from simultaneous updates. Even if Subversion > could allow multiple svnserves hitting the same repository by tra

Re: Use of svnserve and Dropbox

2011-09-22 Thread David Weintraub
Thanks for all the replies. Yeah, I figured this wouldn't be a good idea. There's no way to prevent multiple users from simultaneous updates. Even if Subversion could allow multiple svnserves hitting the same repository by tracking lock files, you'd still have an issue with Dropbox latency issues.

Re: Use of svnserve and Dropbox

2011-09-22 Thread Chris Albertson
My first impression is that of course this will not work. But let's be more positive. What would work? 1) Use your SVN server to maintain versions and history and then checkout a working directory to the dropbox. You can even have multiple working directories in the dropbox. 2. put your SVN s

Re: Use of svnserve and Dropbox

2011-09-22 Thread Daniel Shahaf
Ben Smith-Mannschott wrote on Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 20:49:35 +0200: > On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 20:40, David Weintraub wrote: > > One of the nice thing about Dropbox is that you can share files > > between various users. I will sometimes keep a Subversion repository > > on Dropbox, so I can access it

Re: Use of svnserve and Dropbox

2011-09-22 Thread Ben Smith-Mannschott
On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 20:40, David Weintraub wrote: > One of the nice thing about Dropbox is that you can share files > between various users. I will sometimes keep a Subversion repository > on Dropbox, so I can access it on various systems. Right now, it's > just for me to use. > > Here's the s

Re: Use of svnserve and Dropbox

2011-09-22 Thread Les Mikesell
On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 1:40 PM, David Weintraub wrote: > One of the nice thing about Dropbox is that you can share files > between various users. I will sometimes keep a Subversion repository > on Dropbox, so I can access it on various systems. Right now, it's > just for me to use. > > Here's the

Re: Use of svnserve and Dropbox

2011-09-22 Thread Chris Albertson
Sharing the repository and having everyone run their own server defeats the purpose.Not just with SVN but with any sepup where we have a server process and a data store the pourpose of the server mostly is to serialize or control access to the data, maintain locks and so on. On Thu, Sep 22, 20

Use of svnserve and Dropbox

2011-09-22 Thread David Weintraub
One of the nice thing about Dropbox is that you can share files between various users. I will sometimes keep a Subversion repository on Dropbox, so I can access it on various systems. Right now, it's just for me to use. Here's the scenario: * I have my Dropbox under $HOME/Dropbox. * I create a Su