Svnsup architecture [was: Re: svn - but smaller?]

[Peter Jeremy]

On 2013-Jan-25 13:42:19 +0100, Arrigo Marchiori <ardovm at yahoo.it> wrote:
>The current svnsup design is composed of:
>
> 1- svnsup-distill: takes a revision from svn and creates a text file
>    (called a delta) that represents it. It seems to be almost
>    complete.
>
> 2- svnsup-apply: takes a delta generated by svnsup-distill and applies
>    it to an existing source tree. It's currently a work in progress.
>
> 3- a server-side application that runs svnsup-distill and distributes
>    the deltas (still to be developed).
>
> 4- a client-side application that fetches new deltas and runs
>    svnsup-apply. New trees are "bootstrapped" from other sources,
>    e.g.  weekly tarballs (still to be developed).

I think you've just re-invented CTM.  Before spending too much more
time on svnsup, I suggest you read ctm(1).

-- 
Peter Jeremy
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