Re: (Tortoise) SVN Repository Backup problem

Duncan Murdoch murdoch-at-stats.uwo.ca |Lists| wrote:
> svk (http://svk.elixus.org/) is a project based on the svn source code,
> that allows you to mirror the repository and work with it when you don't
> have a connection to the real one.

No, it is not based on the svn source code, it builds on top of svn. It
uses svn and svn perl hooks behind the scenes. Not a separate svn code base.

> I don't know how it handles sync'ing
> when the connection comes back up.

It does nice merges! svk rocks!

> The hard problem is what to do if you commit some changes at home, then
> forget to sync with work, and commit some changes there. With your
> scheme (copying the whole repo on a USB key), one set of changes would
> be lost completely unless you did some sort of tedious manual merge. I
> don't know the details of what svk does.

Copying the whole repo sounds dangerous. Then there will be ambiguity as
to what "revision 45" is.

svn also handles merge history. Tres cool!

> I think my repository is too valuable to trust it to svk, because I
> don't see the level of community support for it that I see with svn.

There need be no changes made to configuration of software running the
svn repository "at work". svk will work seemlessly with any subversion
repository. Thats the beauty.

I'd definitely go for svk. Its made for what you ask. My $0.02 anyway.

Peter

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Peter Valdemar Mørch
http://www.morch.com
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