But svk is not usable outside of the command line so its no use to
folks that want a GUI.
And you force Perl on them as well.
Barry
On Sep 16, 2004, at 20:41, John Peacock wrote:
> Eric S. Raymond wrote:
>> Now things are better. Before bicycling to lunch, Eric ran a one-line
>> shellscript that uses rsync to update a local copy of the gpsd
>> repository on his laptop:
>> rsync http://svn.berlios.de/svnroot/gpsd ~/svn/gpsd/SVN
>
> [first time only]
>
> svk mirror //gpsd/trunk http://svn.berlios.de/svnroot/gpsd
> svk cp //gpsd/trunk //gpsd/local/trunk
>
> [every other time, get up-to-date changes]
>
> svk sync //gpsd/trunk
>
> [check for conflicts]
>
> svk smerge -C //gpsd/trunk //gpsd/local/trunk
>
> [and automatically merge if no conflicts]
>
> svk smerge //gpsd/trunk //gpsd/local/trunk
>
>> As he eats lunch, he does commits to that local repository. When he
>> gets within range of his wireless net again, he runs another one-line
>> shellscript from within his working-copy directory that does this:
>> svn sync http://svn.berlios.de/svnroot/gpsd
>
> svk smerge -C //gpsd/local/trunk //gpsd/trunk
> svk smerge //gpsd/local/trunk //gpsd/trunk
> svk sync //gpsd/local/trunk
>
>> This ships all the commits he did over lunch to the repo in Germany.
>> Then he closes his laptop, sits down at his desk, and types "svn
>> update" at the keyboard of his desktop machine.
>
> Sure, it is a few extra lines, but there is already a way to do
> _exactly_ what you want. Since this is your own repository, you can
> even skip the local/trunk and do all of your work in the mirrored
> location itself and the sync will do the right thing when you are
> reconnected.
>
> John
>
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