From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Aug 23 18:00:11 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 77D3E1065672 for ; Thu, 23 Aug 2012 18:00:11 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kenfreebsd@icarz.com) Received: from deanna.icarz.com (deanna.icarz.com [207.99.22.19]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 17B9E8FC1F for ; Thu, 23 Aug 2012 18:00:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [10.10.31.177] ([10.10.31.177]) (authenticated bits=0) by deanna.icarz.com (8.14.4/8.14.3) with ESMTP id q7NI09aO062441 for ; Thu, 23 Aug 2012 14:00:09 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from kenfreebsd@icarz.com) Message-ID: <50366FA9.30007@icarz.com> Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2012 14:00:09 -0400 From: Ken Menzel User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:14.0) Gecko/20120713 Thunderbird/14.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org References: <1345697446.84337.11.camel@neo.cse.buffalo.edu> <20120823225855.U33776@sola.nimnet.asn.au> <1345729674.52121.4.camel@bauer.cse.buffalo.edu> <5036497F.7020501@icarz.com> <1345736581.27688.403.camel@revolution.hippie.lan> In-Reply-To: <1345736581.27688.403.camel@revolution.hippie.lan> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.64 on 207.99.22.19 Subject: Re: FreeBSD 9.1-RC1 Available... X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: kmenzel@whisolutions.com List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2012 18:00:11 -0000 On 8/23/2012 11:43 AM, Ian Lepore wrote: > On Thu, 2012-08-23 at 11:17 -0400, Ken Menzel wrote: >> >> I found two good primers: >> http://mebsd.com/configure-freebsd-servers/update-freebsd-source-tree-using-subversion-svn.html >> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/articles/committers-guide/article.html#SUBVERSION-PRIMER >> >> The second primer in the committer handbook seems to indicate that it >> is difficult to run an SVN mirror. This appears to me to be the >> biggest drawback. I have been using CVS and perforce for years, but >> subversion is new to me. > > It may be difficult to run an svn mirror that allows you to commit > locally and get those changes back to the project, but running a > read-only mirror is trivial. The script I run nightly from cron to sync > my local mirror is: > > #!/bin/sh > # > # svnsync to pull in changes from FreeBSD to my local mirror. > # > svnsync sync file:///local/vc/svn/base > > I can't remember how I initially created and populated the mirror, but > it's likely I grabbed a snapshot of the mirror at work and brought it > home on a thumb drive (just to avoid initial network DL time). > > -- Ian Thanks Ian, The shame of it is I just setup a new read-only mirror on CVS about a month ago! The initial download did take quite awhile. I hope some doc committers can add this information to a wiki or update the committer handbook to reflect the Read only options. In the mean time I found some articles that may help others: http://csoft.net/docs/svnsync.html.en http://www.kirkdesigns.co.uk/mirror-svn-repository-svnsync http://blog.notreally.org/2006/11/30/setting-up-a-subversion-mirror-repository-using-svnsync/ http://blogs.collab.net/subversion/2007/08/mirroring-repos/ http://wordaligned.org/articles/how-to-mirror-a-subversion-repository Ken