Re: Does svn export performs any kind of outbound connection

On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 22:05, Nguyen Vu Hung (VNC)
<vuhung_at_vinicorp.com.vn> wrote:
> (2011/03/10 9:31), Andy Levy wrote:
>
> On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 21:26, Nguyen Vu Hung (VNC)
> <vuhung_at_vinicorp.com.vn> wrote:
>
> Folks,
>
> Just a quick question:
>
> Does svn export performs any kind of outbound connection (like http) other
> than localhost?
>
> svn export only makes a connection between the client and the server,
> and only if you export using a URL (as opposed to doing an export from
> a working copy). Just like any other Subversion command that interacts
> with the server.
>
> So, svn export http://hostname/path/to/dir does make connections to svn
> servers.

Yes, because you're telling it to connect to the server. Subversion
does what you tell it to do.

> Does svn export path/to/working/dir makes connections to svn servers?
>
> Because I am working with a remote svn server that is quite big in size and
> the Internet
> connection is quite slow.
>
> What I want to do is: delete all .svn folder on a checked out repo.

svn help export. See usage #2.

> Under Windows, I can grep and delete all .svn folder but I don't know if
> there is any
> "smart" way to do that with the feature that svn and/or tortoiseSVN
> provides.

There is. For the command line, see usage #2 when you run svn help export.

For Tortoise, see
http://tortoisesvn.net/docs/release/TortoiseSVN_en/tsvn-dug-export.html

> As far as I tried, it seems that tortoiseSVN does not support exporting from
> a local working svn folder.

It does; see the link above. Be sure to read the whole page. If you
stop at the screenshot, you'll miss the portion relevant to your
question.
Received on 2011-03-10 04:20:04 CET