Hi,
Thanks for the comments Robert, Ron, and Simon,
A server would be hard -- none of these machines are desktops or have
fixed IP's. But now that I'm seeing how difficult it is to have the
repo on an external HD, maybe I will brainstorm a way to go through
svnserve....
I created the repo on the HD when it was connected to an XP laptop.
Cygwin reports there that the files are owned by perk:none. When I move
the HD to a Vista laptop, cygwin there reports the files are owned by
4294967925:4294967925. I have no idea where those numbers came from.
But that's why Vista laptop will not give me access to these files.
OK, I think it's clear that I'm trying to force something that is not
meant to be.
This is what I want:
I want an ~30 Gb repo to follow me around wherever I go. Maybe today I'm
coding on my laptop and want to commit the changes to the repo. Next
week, maybe I'll go to a lab in Switzerland and work on a desktop
there. In that case, I want my entire repo there and to be able to
commit to it.
My initial thought was that due to size/speed, the repo should be on a
HD. For example, I don't want to download 30Gb to a new computer over
the internet if I want to access my repo.
Given all this, do you guys have suggestions for a "better way"?
Now I'm leaning towards making a laptop+svnserv my be-all-end-all repo.
And if I want to get a copy of the repo on a new computer, I would
transfer over the local intranet. What do you think?
Thanks a ton,
perk
Ron Wilson wrote:
> If I may venture a guess, perhaps Out-of-Office work?
>
> Occasionally, one of us, here, will visit a manufacturing facility to
> more directly investigate an issue, taking along a laptop, and making
> actual code changes to test right there.
>
> Since we share a project repository within the team, we have no
> chaoice but to just wait until returning to the office (or factory
> office) to do updates and commits. But for a solo engineer, a portable
> repository makes a lot of sense. For me that would almost certainly be
> a laptop, but if I could rely on having a laptop (or other PC) waiting
> for me when I got there, then a pocket drive or USB stick would be
> very handy.
>
> On 1/28/08, Simon Large <simon.tortoisesvn_at_googlemail.com> wrote:
>
>> On 28/01/2008, Kevin Hennessy <perk_at_theabsurd.org> wrote:
>>
>>> I'd like to keep a repo on an external HD that I can pass around between
>>> a few different windows computers.
>>>
>> Maybe a silly question but why do you pass a hard drive around? Isn't
>> it easier to set up one of the PCs as a server. svnserve is really
>> quite easy to set up.
>>
>> Simon
>>
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