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[Ken Menzel]

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).
> 
> -- Ian
Thanks Ian,  The shame of it is I just setup a new read-only mirror on
CVS about a month ago!  The initial download did take quite awhile.

I hope some doc committers can add this information to a wiki or update
the committer handbook to reflect the Read only options.

In the mean time I found some articles that may help others:
http://csoft.net/docs/svnsync.html.en
http://www.kirkdesigns.co.uk/mirror-svn-repository-svnsync
http://blog.notreally.org/2006/11/30/setting-up-a-subversion-mirror-repository-using-svnsync/
http://blogs.collab.net/subversion/2007/08/mirroring-repos/
http://wordaligned.org/articles/how-to-mirror-a-subversion-repository

Ken