What's up with the SVN repository?

[Tim Kientzle]

> 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

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