FreeBSD SVN repository mirror with local branches ability

[John Baldwin]

On Sunday 20 September 2009 10:43:01 am sojdaa wrote:
> 
> Hello
> 
> Like in the subject, I want to install SVN FreeBSD repo mirror and would
> like to have the possibility to create my own branches, that will be merged
> with synchronized local mirror. I've done this using svk after reading the
> subversion primer: http://wiki.freebsd.org/SubversionPrimer, but I'm
> wondering if there's any other possibilities to do this and avoid using
> perl, because svk is a set of perl scripts. I wanted to keep the whole
> system as simple as possible. I read some topics about git, mercurial and
> communication with svn, but these are other versioning systems.
> Unfortunately svnsync can create purely read-only mirrors. Is there any way
> somehow to use only svn tools, like svnadmin, svnsync, but combine them to
> create a mirror with write capabilities or there is no sense in trying
> other tools than svk?

I have used svk for this at ${JOB} and it works well for managing the mirror.

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John Baldwin