Subversion? (Re: HEADS UP: Importing csup into base)

Nik Clayton nik at ngo.org.uk
Mon Mar 6 05:19:19 PST 2006


Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
> Ollivier Robert <roberto at keltia.freenix.fr> writes:
>> According to Dag-Erling Smrgrav:
>>> svk is not an alternative to svn, it's an svn client.
>> As far as I understand svk, it is more than "just a svn client".  It uses
>> some of the svn layers (file system, remote access for example) but add
>> layers of its own for the distributed/decentralised concept.
> 
> The "master repo" still has to run plain svn, because svk does not
> support remote access; this also means that you can't mirror a mirror.

Yes you can.  You just need to run a (read-only) svnserve for your 
$HOME/.svk/local repo (and any other repos you might have set up in 
depotmap).  I do this all the time.

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