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Re: Thoughts on user issues and how to attract the CVS user base...

From: Garrett Rooney <rooneg_at_electricjellyfish.net>
Date: 2003-03-11 19:04:35 CET

>
>
> 2) CVS is capable of having 'local' repositories. i.e. even if you
> don't have server you can wack in a directory, cvs init it and
> use it for version control / internal collaboration. SVN can't
> do this... can it? Local repositories really are useful, especially
> in situations where a code may have many developer chronologically
> though one a poor postdoc and his supervisor at any one time. A
> local repository remains an easily passable parcel, but one can
> still grep the cvs log to find out when/why something changed!
> (I know, I don't love this either, but it really is how people work)
>

of course you can create a local svn repository, just 'svnadmin create'
and use ra_local to access it. your client will need to be linked
against the berkeley db libraries, but that's the only restriction.

-garrett

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