François Beausoleil <fbeausoleil@ftml.net> writes:
> Announcing release 0.1 of RSVN - a Python script to execute multiple
> commands on a repository, without a working copy.
Is the important thing about this script that it allows you to do
multiple operations in a single (atomic) commit, without a working
copy?
If so, you might want to say that up front... :-)
-Karl
> The problem
> ===========
> Copying and moving huge amounts of data is a pita with a working copy.
> All paths need to be locked and unlocked on every svn subcommand.
>
> The solution
> ============
> Execute the commands server-side (or at least, repository-side in this
> version).
>
> What can it do ?
> ================
> rmkdir, rcopy and rdelete (which implies rmove also exists).
>
> What's missing ?
> ====================
> Automated tests (unit and functional)
> Commands: redit, rpropset, rpropdel, rmerge, radd, rmove (rcopy + rdelete).
> Shell access to the repository: begin, commit, rollback, ls, cd.
>
> Warnings and caveats
> ====================
> MAKE A BACKUP OF YOUR REPOSITORY !
> This is critical, as this script has received minimal testing. It does
> what I need, no more, no less.
>
> Make sure that the target of your copy is named *explicitely*. The
> following won't work:
> rmkdir vendor/libcalc/releases
> rcopy vendor/libcalc/0.1 vendor/libcalc/releases
>
> Instead, do the following:
> rmkdir vendor/libcalc/releases
> rcopy vendor/libcalc/0.1 vendor/libcalc/releases/0.1
>
> If you do the former, you will end up replacing releases with a copy of
> libcalc/0.1, which is not the intended results.
>
> The implementation
> ==================
> rsvn.py
> http://opensvn.csie.org/rsvn/tags/0.1/
>
> Wiki available at:
> https://opensvn.csie.org/traccgi/rsvn/trac.cgi/wiki
>
> Enjoy !
> François Beausoleil
>
>
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Received on Mon Dec 6 18:25:09 2004