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RE: Local svn proxy

From: Cooke, Mark <mark.cooke_at_siemens.com>
Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2011 08:46:16 +0100

> > On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 17:35, Robert J. Gebis
> > <rjgebis_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> > I was wondering if there is a way to setup local svn proxy
> > so my commits could be committed locally before pushing them
> > to remote server. I am on Mac Book Pro and I am running
> > multiple virtual box with different os to develop/build and
> > test. Right now I have to commit changes from one platform
> > which could be breaking something on other.
> > Preferred way to handle this would be to have svn proxy of
> > some kind to to keep changes between local uses before
> > pushing them to remote server where other can get it in
> > building state (at least :)
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andy Levy [mailto:andy.levy_at_gmail.com]
> Sent: 26 October 2011 01:00
> To: Robert J. Gebis
> Cc: users_at_subversion.apache.org
> Subject: Re: Local svn proxy
>
> Subversion supports a write *through* proxy, wherein you have a local
> mirror of the "master" repository and commits are relayed up to the
> master instead of being written to the proxy. But those commits aren't
> "staged" locally - they go immediately to the master.
>
> What it sounds like you really want a DVCS like git or Mercurial, or
> at least the git-svn bridge.
>
Is this not the sort of thing a branch is for? Work on the server proper in your own branch and then merge to "trunk" once complete...
http://svnbook.red-bean.com/nightly/en/svn.branchmerge.html

Otherwise, there is a commercial solution that builds on subversion to allow commits to a local server but that would replicate the changes to all others which is not what I think you want.

~ mark c
Received on 2011-10-26 09:47:04 CEST

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