Re: remote svn dump?

On Sep 26, 2005, at 15:10, Andreas Jellinghaus wrote:

> On Monday 26 September 2005 14:58, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>
>> But you probably don't want your dump available publicly.
>
> I'm sorry: why? If the repository is public available, is
> there anything in the dump that isn't available by other means, too?

I didn't realize you were talking about a publicly-available
repository. Then I suppose there's no problem.

>> But you probably also don't want to
>> send the same data over and over again—the dump won't change so much
>> from day to day.
>
> well the script I had was looking at the youngest revision and thus
> would only dump and load updates, so if it worked, there wouldn't
> be a problem.

True.

> I really liked the idea of doing it pull-based, using anonymous http.
> would be nice if I could do that somehow.

You can certainly write a wrapper script in a language of your choice
(PHP, Perl, Python, Ruby, etc.) which is accessible via HTTP and
whose job it is to start the dump and send back the result.

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Received on Mon Sep 26 15:29:17 2005