Re: Create a read-only always updated working copy

Hi Kevin,

Thanks. I really appreciate the advice.

I moved post-commit.tmpl to an executable post-commit and added the following:
/path/to/bin/svn update /path/to/working/copy/tools

... and it works wonderfully. Except, I now have some permissions
problem, that I will detail in another email to this group.

tia,
rouble

On Sat, May 31, 2008 at 1:07 PM, Kevin Grover <kevin_at_kevingrover.net> wrote:
> On Sat, May 31, 2008 at 9:39 AM, rouble <rouble_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>> SVN gurus,
>>
>> I have a tools directory that contains many executable perl scripts:
>> /path/to/tools
>>
>> I wanted to add this to svn, so I did this:
>> ~$ svnadmin create /path/to/svn
>
> Just a note: I would create an empty directory called 'svn' and then
> 'svmadmin create' a repository called 'tools' there (svnadmin create
> /path/to/svn/tools). This way, you can add new repositories at any
> time. This is personal preference, the rest of my response will be
> based on the way you set things up.
>
>> ~$ svn mkdir file:///path/to/svn/trunk -m "Adding trunk"
>> ~$ svn mkdir file:///path/to/svn/branches -m "Adding branches"
>> ~$ svn mkdir file:///path/to/svn/tags -m "Adding tags"
>
> Just a note: You can save some commits:
> svn mkdir file:///path/to/svn/{trunk,tags,branches} -m "Initiial
> directory structure"
>
> Creates all three base directories in one commit using bash {}
> expansion. You can also explicitly type all three URLs, but manually
> repeating them (IMO) is error prone
>
>> ~$ svn mkdir file:///path/to/svn/trunk/tools -m "Adding tools"
>> ~$ svn import /path/to/tools/ file:///path/to/svn/trunk/tools -m
>> "Initial import"
>>
>> Now, I have /path/to/tools in my svn repository. So far so good.
>>
>> Now, I want to pull a read-only always updated working copy in
>> /path/to/tools. So, users can still cd into /path/to/tools and execute
>> the perl scripts just like they used to. But users should not be able
>> to edit any of these files in that working copy.
>
> You must check out a working copy in place of the current directory. One way
>
> cd /path/to
> # Delete current 'tools' directory (it's all in the repository now)
> rm -rf tools
> # Check out a new, svn managed, 'tools' directory
> svn co file:///path/to/svn/trunk tools
>
> You should also set the owner of the tools directory and files such
> that only they have write permission: everyone else is read-only.
>
>> Also, whenever someone commits something to the repository, I want
>> /path/to/tools to get automatically updated; so users of the scripts
>> always have the latest version.
>
> You must create a svn post-commit hook script. This script, upon a
> successful commit, would just 'svn update' the /path/to/tools working
> copy (as the correct user).
>
> You can see an example at /path/to/svn/conf/post-commit.tmpl. See the
> manual for more details.
>
>> I saw that there is a svnsync tool in svn 1.4+, that can help me
>> achieve what I want, but we only have svn 1.3.2 installed on our
>> machines here... and there is no plan of an upgrade anytime soon. Is
>> there another way to do what I want to do?
>
> svnsync to to keep extra (synced) copies of 'repositories'. It won't
> help you: you need to keep a working copy up-to-date.
>
> - Kevin
>

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