From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Aug 25 03:07:38 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 4C390106566B for ; Sat, 25 Aug 2012 03:07:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lists@pingle.org) Received: from chloe.pingle.org (unknown [IPv6:2605:8000:d:1:40::1]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A2A08FC0C for ; Sat, 25 Aug 2012 03:07:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: from chloe.pingle.org (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by chloe.pingle.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 808AE45095 for ; Fri, 24 Aug 2012 23:07:36 -0400 (EDT) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at pingle.org Received: from chloe.pingle.org ([127.0.0.1]) by chloe.pingle.org (chloe.pingle.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id yY7rom1-VDid for ; Fri, 24 Aug 2012 23:07:36 -0400 (EDT) Received: from [IPv6:2001:470:1f11:e1c:8024:1e6f:8461:6dd5] (unknown [IPv6:2001:470:1f11:e1c:8024:1e6f:8461:6dd5]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: jim) by chloe.pingle.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id C215C45034 for ; Fri, 24 Aug 2012 23:07:35 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <50384172.3090706@pingle.org> Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2012 23:07:30 -0400 From: Jim Pingle User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:14.0) Gecko/20120713 Thunderbird/14.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "freebsd-stable@freebsd.org >> FreeBSD" 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=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: FreeBSD 9.1-RC1 Available... X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2012 03:07:38 -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). I spent a little time today setting up an SVN mirror after reading this thread and wrote up a how-to for those looking to do the same. http://www.pingle.org/2012/08/24/freebsd-svn-mirror Comments/Flames/Corrections welcome... Jim