Re: questions before switching from cvs to svn

Peter Münster wrote:

> * big databases & incremental backups
> It seems to me, that all files are stored in one big database, so every
> commit changes a few big files. Since we are using frequent incremental
> backups (once per hour), we would like to avoid such architecture.

All databases require special backup handling, since their files must be
maintained as atomic units (as opposed to individual files like CVS). You
should read through the book, here:

        http://svnbook.red-bean.com/svnbook/ch05s03.html#svn-ch-5-sect-3.6

for different ways to maintain backups. In fact you should probably read
through the whole book before proceeding much farther...

>
> * RW and RO access
> In our cvs-repository we use POSIX-ACLs, that allows us to distinguish
> read-only and read-write access for each project and each user.
> In the FAQ-list (http://subversion.tigris.org/project_faq.html#readonly)
> it seems to me, that this is not possible with subversion, is this correct?

No, you are confusing "access" with "permission" in this case. Even nominally
readonly operations require write access (this is true of most databases that I
am aware of, for temporary tables, etc.), but you can limit permission to write
new revisions through various means. The easiest is probably authz_svn_module,
see the book here:

        http://svnbook.red-bean.com/svnbook/ch06s04.html#svn-ch-6-sect-4.4

You can also use svnserve and provide r/o and r/w users, but the support is much
more limited:

        http://svnbook.red-bean.com/svnbook/ch06s03.html#svn-ch-6-sect-3.2

>
> * GUI for Windows
> I would like to install TortoiseSVN for our Windows-users, but I've no
> success. Neither errors, nor warnings when installing on Windows 2000, but in
> the menu, there is only TortoiseMerge, but no TortoiseSVN. Nothing to see
> in the explorer neither. Am I missing some point of the installation?

See the documentation for TortoiseSVN, but in general, you would only see
something on the context sensitive popup menu (Right Click). If you want
something more comparable to WinCVS, you should check out RapidSVN instead of
TSVN...

John

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