Re: Hook script for sync via FTP

From: Daniel Falk <dan.svnlist_at_mbx.zapto.org>
Date: 2007-08-21 01:53:16 CEST

David Glasser wrote:

On 8/20/07, Karl Fogel <kfogel@red-bean.com> wrote:
  

Daniel Falk <dan.svnlist@mbx.zapto.org> writes:
    

The difference between this and svnsync is that svnsync, from what I
understand, will mirror a repository from one svn server to another.
Svn2ftp is designed to work more like a controlled export.  It doesn't
replicate the repository, just the head revision of the repository.
And it works over FTP, which I believe is different as well.

A good example of where this might be useful could be a large website
in a subversion repository, where once a change is committed needs to
show up on a remote server for preview.

Thanks for your response.  Let me know what you think.
      

I guess I'm not seeing what the compelling advantage of this is over
just using Subversion itself (either 'update' or 'export'), or using
'rsync'.  I presume you've seen

   http://subversion.tigris.org/faq.html#website-auto-update

already?
    

I would assume that this is because many cheap web hosts only allow
access to files over ftp, and no shell account.  (Unless rsync works
over ftp...)

--dave

  

Yes, that's right.  This is for occasions where your access to a given location involves FTP and not much else.  I have seen this to be useful several times, and I wished something like this existed.  I figure there has to be some other people who would find this useful as well.

If nobody finds it useful enough to publish to the community, that's fine.  Yes Karl, I had read the document you linked to.  I just thought I would offer it to the community in case someone needed this as much as I did.

Thanks for your attention,
Dan


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