Re: [TSVN] Initial repository setup without a checkout?

Gary Affonso wrote:
> We've got a fairly large repository. Big enough, anyway, to make the
> initial checkout a PITA.
>
> Will it work to take my local working copy (freshly updated to the
> HEAD, of course), zip it up, transfer it to another system, unzip it,
> and then have my new developer start using that as their repository?

Yes, you can transport a local working copy to another machine for
someone else to use. But remember it is a working copy, not a
repository. The repository is separate, and presumably on a server.

> I'd want them to change the login/password which, presumably, they'd
> do first-thing from the top-level folder using the standard stuff in
> the right-click->properties->TSVN tab.

Login/password is not stored in the WC. The first time your new
developer tries to authenticate (s)he will be prompted for username and
password, which are then stored.

Simon

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