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Re: mount svn as a local driver

From: Blair Zajac <blair_at_orcaware.com>
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2009 17:02:07 -0800

On 12/17/2009 07:41 AM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>
> On Dec 16, 2009, at 23:42, 9pbz5ct02_at_sneakemail.com wrote:
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>> I would like to mount a part of a svn repository as if it were a networked hard drive.
>
> WebDAV autoversioning does this...
>
> http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.5/svn.webdav.autoversioning.html
>
>> Ideally I would like to be able to choose the revision at mounting time (wherther thats a number or the head) and keep it at that until re-mounted.
>
> ...but not this...
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>> Also the files would be read only - no autoversioning.
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> ...and I don't know if it can be configured to do this. I guess you could do this with a pre-commit hook or other authorization scheme.
>
>
> Alternately, you could have a normal network share on a server, that your users connect to in a read-only fashion. And that directory on the server could be a working copy, which a server-side process would "svn up" after every commit, or every so often, to keep it updated.
>

You could also use a FUSE filesystem to access it:

http://www.jmadden.eu/index.php/svnfs/

It looks a little dated, but I believe the FUSE API is pretty stable so
this should still work.

Regards,
Blair
Received on 2009-12-18 02:03:04 CET

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