Re: Make a working copy from an export

Tony Sweeney wrote:
>>
>> I have an export of my repository which I wish to make into a
>> working copy.
>>
>> Here's my situation:
>> I use Subversion to manage my music library. I have a
>> working copy at home and at work, and sometimes check out
>> portions in other places. I recently deleted my working copy
>> at work and need to restore it. The server is hosted at
>> home, so when I check out at work, I'm depending on my upload
>> bandwidth at home, which is minimal. An export of the
>> library is 10GB, but a working copy is 21GB. I can bring an
>> export to work on my 16GB USB Flash drive, but the flash
>> drive is too small for a working copy. That's why I want to
>> put an export on my flash drive (at home), take it to work,
>> and then convert the export to a working copy.
>>
>> This hasn't been an issue in the past because each update at
>> work was only a handful of files, since I was adding music to
>> the repository one album at a time. Now that I have to check
>> out the entire library, it becomes a much more
>> bandwidth-hungry operation. I have seen some tutorials on
>> how to make an export from a working copy, but not the other
>> way around. I would make no changes to the export.
>>
>> I realize there are other ways to do this:
>> 1. Use the flash drive to copy half of the working copy one
>> day and the other half the next day 2. Run a series of
>> checkout/interrupt iterations at work.
>> I'm wondering if there's a tool in Subversion to do the work for me.
>
> I'm not aware of any natively supported way. Probably the easiest
> solution is simply to buy a bigger USB stick or a portable USB hard
> drive. A 32 GB USB stick will run you $60-70 from Newegg; a 160GB
> external USB hard drive will run you $55-70 from the same source. Note
> that there is quite a difference in speed between flash drives, so you
> may want to do some research before you fork over your cash.

You can get laptop-sized USB-powered external drives all the way up to
500Gb these days so portability isn't a huge problem. The quick-fix
here might be to simply zip or tar -z the working copy if that will make
it fit, though.

-- 
   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell_at_gmail.com
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