svn - but smaller?

[Sergey V. Dyatko]

On Wed, 23 Jan 2013 15:40:50 +0100
Oliver Brandmueller <ob at e-Gitt.NET> wrote:

> Hi,

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> So, is there some alternative small svn client, that leaves a 
> drastically smaller footprint probably somewhere around, probably
> even in the ports or is there anything I'm missing? The current
> situaion for me is a bit annoying. From the user's or admin's point
> of view at least. I didn't even see an option in svn to not build the
> server components, which would probably already help to make things
> smaller?
> 

You may:
1/ install subversion on some host/jail 
2/ do svn export ( f.e. svn://svn.freebsd.org/base/releng/9 stable_9)
3/ tar it 
4/ on 'client' fetch(1)/scp/rsync tarball

in that case you don't need svn on 'client', fetch and scp in base :)

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wbr, tiger