On 8/27/06, Garrett Rooney <rooneg@electricjellyfish.net> wrote:
> On 8/27/06, Max Bowsher <maxb1@ukf.net> wrote:
> > Paul Cameron wrote:
> > > I feel another
> > > interesting application would be for remote offices to perform all
> > > 'non-commit' operations (log, update, etc.) against a local, replicated
> > > server and commits against the remote, central server. The obvious
> > > benefit would be much improved performance for non-commit operations
> > > instigated from the remote offices. I believe this capability would
> > > require clients that support two urls for the same repository. Is this
> > > feasible and/or planned, or am I way off base here?
>
> You could actually do it manually now, people check out from a mirror,
> then have to do a 'svn switch --relocate' to the "real" repository in
> order to commit. It kind of sucks that this is a manual process, but
> it is feasable.
>
> Note that to make this work you'll have to make sure that both
> repositories have the same UUID, that's not impossible to do, but it
> is a bit tricky. If you look at the svnsync tests they do it via a
> svnadmin load and a dumpfile that contains only a UUID record.
>
> > That's actually a pretty interesting idea, though I'd submit the
> > alternate design of the client only having one URL, and having the
> > server either 'passing through' write operations to the upstream server,
> > or issuing some sort of 'referral' to the client informing it to re-try
> > against a different server.
> >
> > My reasons for the alternate suggestion are:
> >
> > 1. Simplified user experience, they do not have to specify two URLs that
> > must match.
> >
> > 2. Gives read-only server a hint that it should be looking for new
> > changes to sync.
>
> I'd love to see this ability baked in to either mod_dav_svn or
> svnserve, it would simplify things greatly.
>
ra_serf and mod_dav_svn with mod_cache should solve this problem much
better than manual svnsync and some kind of redirection, if I
understand correctly. Or I've missed something?
--
Ivan Zhakov
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Received on Sun Aug 27 22:53:22 2006