On 11 August 2010 17:44, Campbell Allan <campbell.al...@sword-ciboodle.com> wrote: > > On Wednesday 11 Aug 2010, Ryan Schmidt wrote: >> On Aug 11, 2010, at 02:46, Steven Woody wrote: >> > What's the current status for subversion servers replication? Does it >> > allow read/write on both master and slaver sides? Is it stable enough >> > to put in real life use? I plan to do it for supporting concurrent >> > development in different GEO locations, what is the right manual I >> > should go to read, is it the "SVN Book"? >> >> The software the Subversion project provides for this task is called >> svnsync. All writes occur on the master; the slaves are read-only. But you >> can set up a write-through proxy so that people who check out from a slave >> and try to commit will be transparently redirected to the master. > > This is pretty easy to set up too, the documentation is very clear about this. > I've not looked at it the last few months but I did come across a couple of > issues. One is easily worked around, the other not so easy but will not > affect everyone. > > Svnsync does not automatically pick up on changes to revision properties so > the post-revprop-change hook of the master needs to deal with this explicitly > with the copy-revprops option. > > Svnsync doesn't really understand locking so the two repositories aren't > always in sync. This will not be a problem for many I suspect but does affect > the repositories I maintain unfortunately. I've read about several solutions, > usually involving some kind of third party script but my investigations > haven't gone much further. > > -- > >
Thanks everyone, and, can I get know if the replication/write-through things support https? The master that I want to mirror is using https in a windows server and the users are authenticated by their windows accounts. It's not familiar to me since all my experiences of subversion are about Linux. -- Life is the only flaw in an otherwise perfect nonexistence -- Schopenhauer narke public key at http://subkeys.pgp.net:11371 (narkewo...@gmail.com)
