Re: A couple more subversion notes

[Paolo Bonzini <bonzini at gnu dot org>]

> | Even if we assume that it's impossible to upgrade OpenSSH on a given platform
> | for some weird reason,
>
> I appreciate your effort in this, but I strongly suggest that you
> refrain from calling reasons why people can't install the latest
> versions of supporting tools "weird".

I agree.  For example, Fink on the Mac only has svn 1.1 (not that this 
is a showstopper IMHO), and Debian testing is "stuck" with the latest 
3.8 openssh.

> | the problem is probably going to be fixed by SVN 1.4 and
> | the new svn+ssl:// protocol. Meanwhile, unlucky people will have to live with a
> | slower "svn diff -rR1 -rR2" remote operation.

Or write a script gccdiff that, for now, invokes svn on the read-only 
svn:// script.  It will go away with SVN 1.4.

I think that "moving away" from svn+ssh should not mean disabling -- 
just making it the not-preferred way for connecting.

Also, I see how this cannot be an option for somebody, but the mirror 
can be remote (e.g. NFS-mounted) if you are using svk.  Still (unlike 
with a rsync CVS repository), you could push changes to the main GCC 
repository.  I think that in the end I'll put the svk mirror somewhere 
on a university server.  Of course you lose the offline operation that 
Giovanni likes so much :-) but it's just like CVS.

Paolo