Subversion problems

[Friedrich W. H. Kossebau]

Am Freitag, 18. Februar 2005 13:15, schrieb Andras Mantia:
> On Friday 18 February 2005 13:07, Thiago Macieira wrote:
> > 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.
>
> You mean that if my kdelibs CVS checkout now is 70 MB (including the
> generated files with make -f Makefile.cvs and the CVS directories), now
> the same checkout from svn will be around the double? And actually I
> need to download several (1-1.5) GB to have the kde modules checked
> out? Now those without kde-i18n, kdeextragear* and with qt-copy are
> ~800MB, that I obtained the same way (converted a checkout from an
> anonymous mirror that I get from somebody and did cvs update during the
> last years).
> Getting again them directly with a checkout will be a pain. In the best
> case I can download ~3-400MB a month from home, and even at the other
> place I have only a 64-128kbps access. I cannot stay there several days
> to wait for a checkout, but I could ask somebody to start the downloads
> and I go there and get them, but those somebody will not use Linux,
> this is why would be better to have tarballs that can be downloaded.

Ask some KDE developer with a cheap and good snail mail connection to you to 
send you a DVD or some CDs with the whole checkout. That would be some 1.5 
GB/day or alike... ;)

Friedrich
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