Re: versioned archiving with file metadata using svn (asvn-like)

On Monday 19 December 2005 20:48, Gunter Ohrner wrote:
> I would like to use svn for storing directory trees where file metadata
> like access permissions and mtimes matter.
...
> I searched the web and newsgroups high and low but wasn't able to find
> anything better than asvn.
Did you search the mailing-list?

> asvn does its job (after I fixed the quoting which made managing of files
> with spaces impossible), but it takes ages for spawning tons of
> subprocesses for each and every file in the tree and it doesn't rescue any
> file time stamps...
You need the meta-data branch for that.

See http://svn.collab.net/viewcvs/svn/branches/meta-data-versioning/ for
the branch; but beware, this is just the *modification* needed.
They should be applied to a current version of subversion.

So I'd suggest you get a current patch by something like
        svn diff -r 13256:HEAD
https://svn.collab.net/repos/svn/branches/meta-data-versioning/owner-group-mode > /tmp/meta-data.patch
and use this patch to update your subversion source.

Or, if you're compiling a checkout of subversion, you can use "svn merge".

Depending on your exact needs fsvs might be better suited (fsvs.tigris.org,
still in heavy development).

Regards,

Phil

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Received on Tue Dec 20 07:56:38 2005