pinky goyal wrote:
>>> what the requirement for me is to give the facility to the user to
>>> checkout from website (some users only need to checkout , they dont
>>> do any updates or commit ) so that they will be able to get the
>>> project without installation of the subversion client.
>
>> Oh! Then you probably want an export, not a working copy. An export
>> will be less than half the size of a working copy. You can still have
>> a server-side working copy that gets "svn update"d periodically or
>> via post-commit, but to make the tarball, you first "svn export" from
>> that working copy to another directory and tar up that new directory.
>>
>> As someone else said, ViewVC already has this feature. Other web-
>> based repo browsers may offer it as well.
> but for that your server must maintain copies for all the projects
> and for all the sub folders.i don't think that it is a feasible
> solution to export/checkout every folder and sub folder
> periodically on server. repository size may be very large, in
> that case occupying so many space on server for these copies is
> very difficult.
If these users aren't going to fix and commit old bugs, you probably
really only want them to have access to the code at certain release
points, and perhaps just the newest of those. However, if you do want
to give access to all revisions, the web repo browsers can do it without
actually storing an exported copy.
--
Les Mikesell
lesmikesell@gmail.com
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Received on Wed Oct 10 15:09:00 2007