What's up with the SVN repository?

[Yoshihiro Ota]

How about SVK?

Something like below will copy a repository.
% svk mirror svn://svn.freebsd.org/base //freebsd/base

I do not know the details mentioned below, though.

Hiro

On Sun, 9 Aug 2009 13:21:19 +0300
Kostik Belousov <kostikbel at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sat, Aug 08, 2009 at 07:48:38PM -0700, Tim Kientzle wrote:
> > >On 2009-08-08 23:02, Kostik Belousov wrote:
> > >>Working with the history with reasonable speed. Additional bonus
> > >>is ability to be able to work offline.
> > 
> > "svnsync" is a standard SVN tool (installed as part
> > of svn) that makes it pretty easy to set up a read-only
> > copy of an SVN repository.  It's a little confusing
> > to get set up initially, but once you do, you can
> > just run it from cron every hour or so to keep in
> > sync.
> > 
> > Main documentation for svnsync starts here:
> > http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.5/svn.ref.svnsync.html
> The issue with svnsync is that modifications of the non-versioned
> properties, that is the normal svn operation, but disabled on our repo,
> are not propagated by svnsync. Also, direct manipulations on the repo,
> like the surgery that was done with cvs2svn:cvs-rev properties, also not
> propagated by svnsync.
> 
> I believe this is major reason why the svnsync mirrors are not given a
> bless. I do use svnsync, and my local mirror is used both to feed the
> the git-svn and local checkouts.
> 
> > 
> > Even without a replica, I've found offline work with
> > SVN pretty reasonable.  No history, but the common
> > "svn status", "svn diff", and "svn revert" commands
> > are fully functional when offline.
> > 
> > Dimitry Andric wrote:
> > >Lowering the load on the main FreeBSD svn server is also nice. :)
> > 
> > This is much less of an issue with SVN than CVS.
> > 
> > Tim
>