Re: Checkout without storing two copies

2017-09-27 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Sep 26, 2017, at 13:13, Robert Hickman wrote: > I tend to work on projects with a large amount of binary data along > with source code and need to track them together. To this date > Subversion is the only tool that I've used which handles this > dependably. That being said I have one major is

Re: Debian package name

2017-09-27 Thread Stefan Sperling
On Wed, Sep 27, 2017 at 12:12:11AM +0300, Maximilian Machedon wrote: > Hello, > > This page https://subversion.apache.org/packages.html#debian suggests > installing the "libapache2-svn" package for Debian. > If I'm not mistaken, the package has been renamed to libapache2-mod-svn in > recent Debian

Re: Checkout without storing two copies

2017-09-27 Thread Stefan Sperling
On Wed, Sep 27, 2017 at 06:01:33AM -0500, Ryan Schmidt wrote: > > On Sep 26, 2017, at 13:13, Robert Hickman wrote: > > > I tend to work on projects with a large amount of binary data along > > with source code and need to track them together. To this date > > Subversion is the only tool that I've

Re: Checkout without storing two copies

2017-09-27 Thread Paul Hammant
> > As I have not used SVN for several years I realize that this feature > may have been added. If not has it been considered? I have a file-sync agent that uses a non-standard Subversion install as a backing-store over WebDAV. It only keeps one copy on the client side, and will shuttle all saves

a little bug when checkout invalid url

2017-09-27 Thread Shmuel Hanoch
Hi, When I (accidently) tried to checkout some repository from a wrong url (with ":" instead of a "@"), the subversion process crushed on assertion. It's easy to reproduce on my machine, for example: svn co svn+ssh://a:l svn: /build/subversion-8E3yhQ/subversion-1.9.3/subversion/libsvn_subr/dirent

Re: Checkout without storing two copies

2017-09-27 Thread Robert Hickman
@Ryan Schmidt @Stefan Sperling. I guess that the difficulty of implementing this depends on how much of the client code depends on the existence of those files. From the linked bug tracker item, the answer appears to be 'quite a lot', though I don't know anything about this codebase. @Paul Hammant

Re: Checkout without storing two copies

2017-09-27 Thread Paul Hammant
> * HTTP(S) based sync protocol. Mine uses Subversions WebDAV as is. > * All files, both on the client and the server, are stored as plain files with there original names. Mine too, or plain binary 'as is' > * Stores limited version history on the server only. Has limited support for file versi

Re: Checkout without storing two copies

2017-09-27 Thread Robert Hickman
> Mine uses Subversions WebDAV as is. What is subversions WebDAV interface like to work with? >> * Atomic file system operations through journaling. > I've no server side beyond Subversion. The journaling system was mostly needed on the client. During a 'checkout' any file being placed in the lo