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Re: Locak copy of repository

From: Andy Levy <andy.levy_at_gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2009 16:06:57 -0500

On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 15:06, en zed as 2 letters <david_at_vsn.co> wrote:
> I work with a company in the UK and maintain a copy of the repository on my main PC. I also use a laptop when travelling. I would like to update the laptop from my main PC and then update back to my desktop when getting home to save the internet traffic of updating both copies against the UK.
>
> If I do a full xcopy /d *.* of the repository directory to my laptop there are files locked, and I can't then seem to update my laptop against the main UK copy while travelling.
>
> Is there a way to make a local copy of the repository without these problems?

If this is a non-negotiable requirement, then Subversion may not be
for you. There's SVK, which is a wrapper around the command-line SVN
client, which can give you an "offline repository" but beyond that,
you're talking about a decentralized VCS like git or Mercurial.

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