On 6/18/07, David Gardner <jgg.lists@gmail.com> wrote:
> If i checkout a repo from my usb drive onto my local drive, it creates
> all the hidden ".svn" directories with the drive letter reference that
> the USB currently has.
>
> Maybe it's "L:" now, but it could be "K:" later!
>
> is there any kind of dynamic reference that SVN will work with?
>
> I can't assign an IP address to my usb drive can I?
>
> I know there are apps out there that permenantly map your usb drive to
> a certain letter. But I'd rather avoid those if possible. If I
> decide it should be Z and then later on, my employer decides to put a
> shared drive as everyone's Z drive, then I'm hosed.
>
> I guess, worst case, I could write a little exe program that would
> cycle through the .svn data and do a broad find/replace of that drive
> letter with the one the usb is currently mapped to.
>
> But I'm hoping there's something better.
>
> Wait, I wonder if I can basically make my USB drive into a little
> mini-web server? I'll look into that.
>
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Are you on XP? XP does auto-assign the drive letter, but if you
change the drive letter (via control panel --> administrative tools
--> computer management --> disk management) it will remember the
drive letter assignment the next time it mounts that USB device. NB:
It only works for *that particular USB device*.
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Received on Mon Jun 18 21:03:45 2007