Subversion problems

[Andras Mantia]

On Friday 18 February 2005 16:30, Stephan Kulow wrote:
> Am Friday 18 February 2005 14:47 schrieb Andras Mantia:
> > On Friday 18 February 2005 15:23, Stephan Kulow wrote:
> > > Am Friday 18 February 2005 14:15 schrieb Stephan Kulow:
> > > > I can't think of a way that should make this impossible. The
> > > > .svn subdirs are all plain text and you don't lock anything on
> > > > checkout
> > >
> > > It's even easier: An anonymous checkout doesn't have any user
> > > name stored at all. Only if you commit, you have to give a user
> > > name.
> >
> > So it's possible to provide such tarballs? That'd be good.
>
> Try http://ktown.kde.org/~coolo/kdewebdev-348408.tar.bz2 - it's a 9MB
> download

So I experimented a little. A cleaned CVS checkout of the kdewebdev is 
5.5MB. The tarball of the kdewebdev .svn directories is about the same 
size (10KB less). This will be important later. 
I did the following:
- cleaned up the tarball you sent to me to have only the .svn 
directories [strip_svn.sh]
- cleaned up a checkout of kdewebdev from CVS and copied the .svn 
directories there
- run "svn revert -R ."
- I removed the CVS directories [cleancvs]
- I ended up with the same files (compared by content) as the one you 
sent me in the tarball.

This means that it's enough to package the .svn directories and offer 
for download, and one could use his own CVS checkout and convert it to 
svn. Even better, as I see you don't even need to have a CVS checkout, 
it's enough if you have the .svn directories, and the "svn revert" will 
restore your files. 
 This saves several MB for downloading (almost 4MB in kdewebdev case, 
even more in some other cases), and wouldn't be much different from 
downloading the released tarballs.
 Now as I was informed, during the checkout you would actually not 
download the .svn directories, but this doesn't change the fact that 
it's more convenient for some to get everything in a package.
 I cannot test the commit from KDevelop (where I already see some 
problem), because I don't remember my CVS password. Can I get back 
somehow? ;-)

Andras

>
> Greetings, Stephan

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