SVN repo

[Chris Rees]

On 9 August 2011 19:17, Stephen Montgomery-Smith <stephen at missouri.edu> wrote:
> On 08/09/2011 01:03 PM, Chris Rees wrote:
>>
>> On 9 August 2011 17:17, Stephen Montgomery-Smith<stephen at 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