Re: [SVN-MIGRATION] Argh!

On Sat, 11 Jul 2009, Rasmus Lerdorf wrote:

> Travis Swicegood wrote:
> > That's actually a *really* bad idea.  There are a lot of third-party
> > tools that rely on the standard SVN repository layout that this will
> > break.  It would be much easier to write a few simple scripts to handle
> > checkouts of multiple repositories or as Hannes pointed out use
> > svn:externals with a few repositories such as pecl-all might also be a
> > good solution.
> 
> What sort of 3rd party tools?  I'm more worried about our own 1st party
> tools that are currently completely broken because of this structure.
> 
> But yes, if this can be fixed via some svn:externals magic ok.
> 
> We also have to find a good way to do what cvsup did for our cvs
> repository.  rsync.php.net fetches most of the repository and keeps a
> copy for serving up via rsync to mirror sites and all sorts of tools.
> That is obviously broken right now.  Watching the pathetic performance
> of svn over http last night, that is definitely not an option.  We need
> an efficient way to clone the repository.  Step 1 might be to get
> svnserve set up and perhaps that would be quick enough to let us do a
> straight periodic update from the rsync server.

svnsync works pretty well for this. I already compiled subservsion for 
this 100 year old RH7.3 box and was on the way setting this up when I 
read about changing structure again. I can continue this.

regards,
Derick

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