Re: Copies of the GCC repository

[Daniel Berlin <dberlin at dberlin dot org>]

On Tue, 2005-11-08 at 13:42 -0500, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 08, 2005 at 10:37:13AM -0800, Devang Patel wrote:
> > On 11/7/05, Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org> wrote:
> > 
> > [snip]
> > 
> > > I have generated an SVK repository to go with this.  As anyone who's
> > > doing or done this themselves can attest, it takes a long time and a
> > > lot of RAM and a whole ton of I/O.
> > 
> > Yes, it takes very long time, few hours before I interrupted it. Plus,
> 
> Try "five to seven days".
> 
> > I am not sure I was following correct steps. Would it be possible to
> > updatw svkhelp page on wiki to list all the steps required to set up a
> > svk mirror using one or both of these tar.rz files ? Thank you.
> 
> All you need to do is what I outlined in the mail you're responding to. 
> Yes, I need to update the Wiki with this information.  I'll do that
> now.
> 
> > > point I will update the wiki with useful bits, but I don't have many
> > > just yet.  For instance, two open questions while I was writing this:
> > >
> > >   - how to make svk refuse commits to the mirrored portion instead of
> > >     wanting to push them upstream
> > 
> > My plan is to set up read only mirror (using svn://gcc.gnu.org/...). I
> > do not know if it will work or not.
> 
> Yes, that works fine, but I'm not sure what will happen if you try to
> commit.
> 
If you try to commit to the mirror, it will try to commit to the
underlying repo.

That's how svk push actually works.

It is expected that you make local branches from the mirror, and use
smerge and friends to keep them up-to-date (smerge is apparently very
smart and can do this without any trouble :P)

--Dan