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Re: Crazy idea? Remote SVN client for the Subversion-impaired

From: Andy Levy <andy.levy_at_gmail.com>
Date: 2007-02-20 19:18:07 CET

On 2/20/07, Mark Lundquist <lundquist.mark@gmail.com> wrote:

<snip>Mark's difficult client setup</snip>

> DESIDERATA
> ----------
>
> Suppose there were Subversion client that ran as a server daemon
> implementing WebDAV or SMB or NFS or AFP. Its purpose would be to Do
> The Right Thing when asked to delete/copy/move/rename elements that are
> already under Subversion control. Somebody would still have to go
> "under the covers" in order to svn add/commit/update/merge/etc., but I
> am already doing that anyway. This would just allow somebody who is
> Subversion-blissfully-unaware (and completely command-line-incapable) to
> mount a remote Subversion working area and do naive filesystem
> manipulations using their GUI of choice, without totally botching up the
> working copy metadata.

I admit I haven't used it much beyond the exploratory "does it work?"
phase, but have you thought about WebDAV & Autoversioning? I don't
know how the copy/move stuff works (and whether it does the same as an
svn cp/svn mv under the covers), but it'd let you give the users a
directory they can mount and use with zero Subversion knowledge so
they can do their tasks.

http://svnbook.red-bean.com/nightly/en/svn.webdav.html

Maybe you have checked it out already and it doesn't meet your needs;
if so, I apologize.

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