Subversion problems

[Thiago Macieira]

Andras Mantia wrote:
>As I read on the kde-i18n-doc, it will be necessary to check out the
>whole repository again from subversion. This can be rather painful, so
>I wonder if it's possbile to provide tarballs with the state of the svn
>repository just after the conversion and convert it locally to your own
>user account later? With CVS it was possible, as you just had to change
>the CVS/Root.

Unfortunately, Subversion's WC (Working Copy) directory is at least the 
double of the code checkout. So, the "state tarball" as you call it would 
be as large as the checkout itself.

So there would be, effectively, no difference between checking out from 
Subversion, or downloading a tarball consisting of .svn directories only.

> I'm asking this as personally I have a limited internet access, but can
>download bigger amounts of data somewhere else, but would be much
>easier to download files than trying to checkout there and tar + bring
>it home.

You can move the WC that way.

Anyways, do you really have to checkout the whole of kde-i18n? Do you 
really follow ALL languages?

If not, check out just the part that you need/want. (I'll put this 
question in a FAQ)

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