TortoiseSVN and SVK

Is there anyone here using SVK, with TortoiseSVN as the primary version
control client?
I understand it is possible to mirror your remote repository locally using
SVK, create a local branch of the mirror, then use TSVN (or the Subversion
command line client) to work on the local branch with the file:// protocol,
updating and merging the local branch back into the mirror and syncing the
mirror with the remote repository.

The biggest caveat apparently is to only touch the local branch with TSVN,
and *never* the local mirror, even though the mirror is fully accessible
within the local repository.

Is anyone using this for day-to-day workflow, and how do you find it? Do you
have any tips and tricks, or caveats?

I'm either sole developer on projects which have mostly binary files, or
joint developer on projects with mostly text files. I'm interested in how
star merge works, and particularly how binary files are treated.

From what I've seen so far, it's very easy to set up (only took me about 10
minutes to get up and running from scratch!), but I was horrified to find
that, on the first conflict I had, SVK somehow managed to insert conflict
messages *into* one of my versioned files and committed them into the remote
repository, breaking the build.

I realise this could easily go off topic with stuff more suited for the SVK
list, but any comments about using TSVN would be very welcome.

Cheers, Robin

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Received on 2008-12-10 13:08:24 CET