Re: Adding LAN support to Subversion

kfogel@collab.net writes:

> Kopp David K <david.kopp@us.army.mil> writes:
> > What I am talking about is being able to put the subversion repository on a
> > shared drive and then have multiple clients access it, like you can with
> > Visual SourceSafe.
>
> Would the "file://" local access method not work in this situation?

It should, in theory. The only problem is that BerkeleyDB may not
behave so well over an SMB share, because BerkeleyDB requires
super-strict posix file-locking semantics. There have been mixed
reports about this.

Maybe David is thinking about writing a new network protocol that
marshalls svn commands directly over SMB! If BerkeleyDB can't
operate directly on an SMB-mounted drive letter, this would be the
only recourse, I guess.

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Received on Mon Oct 27 17:45:15 2003