Re: svnshell-like client

2011-06-09 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Jun 9, 2011, at 11:35, Rick Varney wrote: >> (I really, really don't recommend file based access for clients.) > > I think you have some good reasons for this last statement, > but they are not obvious to me. Could you elaborate some > more on why you don't recommend this? file:///-protoc

Re: svnshell-like client

2011-06-09 Thread Rick Varney
> On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 5:46 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: > > >> Not quite what you want, but viewvc gives a reasonable way to explore a > >repository (especially remotely) with only a web browser and once you > >understand the layout you can plug the path you need into your normal svn > >client

Re: svnshell-like client

2011-06-09 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Jun 9, 2011, at 11:26, Rick Varney wrote: > If I mount the the repository as a file system using a WebDAV client, > how would I accomplish doing an svn info on a file, for example? I assume > that svn info would think files in the mounted file system are unversioned > files. Right, simply ru

Re: svnshell-like client

2011-06-09 Thread Rick Varney
ed you off the subversion users list because I didn't think this >question > > > would be of general interest.  Feel free to CC the list if you feel it is. > > > > Thanks for the suggestion! > > > > Rick > From: Ryan Schmidt > To: Rick Varney >

Re: svnshell-like client

2011-06-06 Thread David Weintraub
It's an interesting question... You're too use to RCS. CVS, for example, uses RCS format for files, but the files are on a remote server where no one but the CVS admin has access. I guess ClearCase via dynamic views comes closest to what you want. (You setup a "view", but can use the magical "@@"

Re: svnshell-like client

2011-06-03 Thread Nico Kadel-Garcia
On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 5:46 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: > On 5/31/2011 12:50 PM, Rick Varney wrote: > >> We are migrating from a RCS-like revision control system, RCE, to >> Subversion. >> The users are accustomed to poking around in the directories where the >> archive files are stored to see what's

Re: svnshell-like client

2011-06-01 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On May 31, 2011, at 16:14, Daniel Shahaf wrote: > Rick Varney wrote on Tue, May 31, 2011 at 10:50:14 -0700: >> > >> The users are accustomed to poking around in the directories where the >> archive >> files are stored to see what's there in a Linux bash shell. While it is >> possible to do t

Re: svnshell-like client

2011-05-31 Thread Les Mikesell
On 5/31/2011 12:50 PM, Rick Varney wrote: We are migrating from a RCS-like revision control system, RCE, to Subversion. The users are accustomed to poking around in the directories where the archive files are stored to see what's there in a Linux bash shell. While it is possible to do this using

Re: svnshell-like client

2011-05-31 Thread Daniel Shahaf
cadaver(1) allows browsing WebDAV HTTP servers from the command line. It doesn't do everything you want (but you might be able to use it as a starting point (if you enable http:// access to your repositories)). Rick Varney wrote on Tue, May 31, 2011 at 10:50:14 -0700: > Hello, > > We are migratin

svnshell-like client

2011-05-31 Thread Rick Varney
Hello, We are migrating from a RCS-like revision control system, RCE, to Subversion.   The users are accustomed to poking around in the directories where the archive files are stored to see what's there in a Linux bash shell.  While it is possible to do this using the svn client commands by pro