svn-export Re: svn bdb checkout?

[Peter Vereshagin]

Hello.

2013/01/16 15:24:00 -0500 Greg Larkin <glarkin at FreeBSD.org> => To Peter Vereshagin :
GL> On 1/16/13 3:07 PM, Peter Vereshagin wrote:
GL> > 2013/01/16 13:51:42 -0600 "Joseph A. Nagy, Jr" 
GL> > <jnagyjr1978 at gmail.com> => To Peter Vereshagin : JANJ> On 01/16/13 
GL> > 13:35, Peter Vereshagin wrote: JANJ> > 2013/01/16 13:19:19 -0600 
GL> The fsfs and bdb backends refer only to the server side of the
GL> Subversion repository.  Each one represents a different way of storing

Ouch! there's the difference that Git made me to forget about, sorry.

GL> the repository data on the server side and doesn't have any bearing on
GL> the .svn directory inside of a client-side working copy.
GL> 
GL> Also note that in earlier versions of the Subversion client, .svn
GL> directories were created at all levels of the working copy.  Since
GL> 1.7, there is one .svn directory per working copy, but that doesn't
GL> have anything to do with the backend repository format.

Cool. Heard it but was googled into the wrong direction.

GL> In short, "svn export" is the way to pull source code out of a
GL> Subversion repository with the .svn directory.  However, that command

Will try.  Stuck with:

  $ xz -d svn-export-2012.12.24.1.tar.xz 
  xz: svn-export-2012.12.24.1.tar.xz: File format not recognized

Shall I update from 'xz-4.999.9_1' then?

GL> If anyone wants to create a port for svn-export and send it my way for
GL> review, I would be happy to do that.  Otherwise, I expect to have a
GL> look myself within the next few months.

A 'why not', too. (=

Thank you.

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