I've been using subversion+davfs2 for a few years now, and have had
brief goes at integrating it with windoze.
In general it works pretty will in a pure linux environment, however I
have come across these issues.
* Webfolders dont appear to allow you to mount the webdav folder as a
drive. (and getting the apache settings right is essential)
* Novels Netdrive (unavailable directly now - and looks like it has
licence issues) - is bugging and can crash WinXP, although seems OK on
Win2000
* Sharing a davfs mounted drive via Samba does not appear to work.
(directory listings break etc.)
* Sharing a davfs mounted drive via FTP also has similar issues.
In general I gave up with windows and DAV based solutions, but would be
interested hearing other options too.
Other ideas included writing a filesystem backend driver for samba to
either use neon, or direct subversion lib calls..
Regards
Alan
On Mon, 2005-10-10 at 16:08 +1000, Carl Brewer wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm considering using subversion as a versioning filesystem
> for a bunch of mobile users with laptops and desktop machines - I
> use tigrisssvn on my machines to keep track of a bunch of
> spreadsheets and the like (inefficient, but disk is cheap ...),
> and I like it a lot, but I want to try and use it for some
> users who want transparent access to a filesystem (they're
> currently using samba, but I want to be able to keep
> versions around if possible - with a policy to determine
> what to keep versions of and what to just store unversioned)
>
> I know that it's possible to use a DAV server to work with
> windoze "my network places" folders, has anyone here any
> real-world experience with this sort of thing? Before I
> spend any great amount of time on it I'd like to know
> if I'll be able to make it a mostly transparent
> filesystem?
>
>
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