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Re: svnsync creates big log files

From: Mark Phippard <markphip_at_gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2010 22:56:56 -0400

His information indicates he is using CollabNet Subversion Edge and this has automatic log rotation and cleanup by default.

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On Oct 28, 2010, at 10:46 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia <nkadel_at_gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 8:48 PM, Mark Phippard <markphip_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>> That is your Apache access log. There are just a lot of requests happening. Logs are rotated daily, just delete them after a day.
>>
>> Sent from my iPhone
>
> Only if it's configured correctly. For people who build their own
> "apache", also now known as "httpd", they need to remember to rotate
> these logs. Packages such as .deb and RPM typically have the log
> rotation setups built in, but I've seen people decide to de-activate
> log rotation "to keep it forever", much as Subversion has no
> gracefully way to entirely delete old branches from the repository
> "because source control should never discard things!".
>
> The reality is that occasionally making a break point and making a
> clean start, whether with code or with logs, can be very helpful to
> keep from having to deal with a lot of stale, useless old material.
>
>> On Oct 28, 2010, at 8:42 PM, Taro Fukunaga <taro4cycle_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi, I am experimenting with svnsync with a repository that has a lot of changes. I found that svnsync creates very large log files in access_<date>.log. Is there a way to turn off this logging? I find that the disk space consumed by this log file is really big.
>>>
>>> Thanks for any help.
>>>
>>> My environment:
>>> OS: Centos 5.5 on an i386
>>> Software: CollabNet Subversion 1.3.0-1621.49 (hence the svnsync comes with this)
>>>
>>>
>>
Received on 2010-10-29 04:57:37 CEST

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