SVN repo

[Chris Rees]

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.

> One other thing - the computer that generates the CTM deltas is now behind
> the University of Missouri firewall.  If I were to be run down by a car
> tomorrow, I don't know who would be in place to take it over.  It probably
> couldn't be run from the University of Missouri.  I hope I have many more
> years of life in front of me, but I thought I should warn people of the
> possibility.

Aren't you pessimistic? I can think of many people we're pretty
screwed without -- it's not an uncommon worry for the project, but far
less of a problem for us than for you as an individual :P

I'll have a look around to see how feasable this is, but unfortunately
since the size issue you've pointed out may be a problem I think we
may have to kiss CTM goodbye once cvs goes...


Chris