A couple more subversion notes

[Richard Guenther]

On 10/19/05, Paolo Bonzini <paolo.bonzini@lu.unisi.ch> wrote:
>
> > But if it's not a win for most of us, we probably shouldn't do it.
> > There is no perfect revision control system.  None of the currently
> > production quality open source ones are any better.
>
> I think it is natural that people start asking questions when they are
> getting ready for the real thing.  I think everybody is going to pleased
> with the transition after a few weeks.
>
> I was pleased when I moved my projects from CVS to arch, after one or
> two weeks.  And if I was pleased with arch, I guess it cannot go worse
> with subversion...
>
> I also have a question though.  Is it possible to only mirror a few
> given branches when setting up an svk repository?  For me, for example,
> local branches off the release branches and mainline would be more than
> enough (and would allow me to get rid of the script I just described to
> FX in the other thread...), and would save me presumably 4 gigs.

Yes, I just put some notes about how to do that on the wiki.  Though try
using a local rsync copy of the svn repository for initial sync - it seems to
take ages if going over ssh+svn.

Richard.