Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2012 22:19:36 -0700 From: Dennis Glatting <freebsd@pki2.com> To: Jim Pingle <lists@pingle.org> Cc: "freebsd-stable@freebsd.org >> FreeBSD" <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: FreeBSD 9.1-RC1 Available... Message-ID: <1345871976.85365.3.camel@btw.pki2.com> In-Reply-To: <50384172.3090706@pingle.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> <50384172.3090706@pingle.org>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On Fri, 2012-08-24 at 23:07 -0400, Jim Pingle wrote: > 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... > There are two things that I am confused about "base." 1) What, exactly, is base? When I do a co, what tree branch is that? 2) Base /appears/ not to contain releng/9.1 or stable/8. How do I mirror those? > Jim > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?1345871976.85365.3.camel>