Date: Tue, 9 Aug 2011 20:07:44 +0100 From: Chris Rees <crees@freebsd.org> To: Stephen Montgomery-Smith <stephen@missouri.edu> Cc: "ctm-users@freebsd.org" <ctm-users@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: SVN repo Message-ID: <CADLo83_J4h-q%2Bp14JG0NQ1Y1Z11WvGbd1d7R3psoKmigXWo1vg@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4E4179B9.6010808@missouri.edu> References: <CADLo839wy4VD0-fJ0jdHu-wnUgbdvCLTTpPdwEhhfKe841b-cA@mail.gmail.com> <4E415D7D.40002@missouri.edu> <CADLo839opajQMeA4QZBS92bPg9ZV7P4HFH7aqcmBKfwYJyp-wA@mail.gmail.com> <4E4179B9.6010808@missouri.edu>
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On 9 August 2011 19:17, Stephen Montgomery-Smith <stephen@missouri.edu> wrote: > On 08/09/2011 01:03 PM, Chris Rees wrote: >> >> On 9 August 2011 17:17, Stephen Montgomery-Smith<stephen@missouri.edu> >> wrote: >>> >>> Chris Rees wrote: >>>> >>>> Hi Stephen, >>>> >>>> Have you any plans to start distributing the subversion repo? I keep >>>> hearing little hints about the Other Two Trees being moved too... If >>>> you need any more hands on it I'll be happy to help. >>>> >>>> Chris >>> >>> >>> I hadn't thought about it, but it is a good idea. >>> >>> A good start would be for you to tell me some basic commands by which I >>> can >>> fetch the whole subversion tree, and how I can regularly update it. I >>> know >>> almost nothing about svn. (Also on cvs I have access to >>> cvsup-master.freebsd.org, and it would be nice to have the equivalent for >>> svn.) >>> >>> Setting it up so that CTM creates regular updates of the svn repository >>> will >>> then be very straightforward for me, as the infrastructure is essentially >>> all there. >>> >>> Also, if the svn repository is big (as big as the cvs repository), I >>> probably need to warn the mirrors of the big files that will arrive. >> >> Hahaha, good one. The svn repo (just for src) is enormous -- the seed >> file is 1GB alone. > > The cvs repos are about 1.2G (compressed). There are about three or four > *xEmpty* files in in cvs-cur at any one time. So adding another three or > four of these might only double the size of CTM. I think it is doable. > > Tell me a command sequence for downloading the svn repo, and I can do a few > preliminary experiments to see how big it would all be. Although I brought this up, I'm not technically a svn user -- just interested in future compatibility. I'm signing off for today now I'm afraid, but the instructions are at [1], I'll get a command sequence tomorrow if it's complicated :) Chris [1] http://wiki.freebsd.org/SubversionPrimer#head-a9bf2ef502d986092afa9606a2619735b87ded60
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