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genisis300

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From: Uk

Registered: 2008-01-15

Posts: 284

Svn

Hi All,

Just wondering if it's possible to copy a remote svn repo to my laptop so i can keep all the orignal comments etc?

i'm using sub versions and rapidsvn

cheers
matthew

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big_gie

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Registered: 2005-01-19

Posts: 637

Re: Svn

You can have a working copy of the repository on your machine: just check out the code.

But if you mean all the log, then you want a dump of the repo. You need shell access to the repo though. See the wiki page: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Sub … nd_restore

Basicaly you "svnadmin dump repodir > file.dump"

If you don't have shell access, I think there is a clone feature of svn. Look it up on google. You could also import the repo in git so you can work offline. I do this when I'm on the train. You can even send your work back to the svn repo after! Its something like "git svn clone ...." and "git dcommit" I think.

Just a warning: don't just copy the directory containing the svn repo somewhere else. Dump it first and import it back elsewhere.

Dusty

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From: Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada

Registered: 2004-01-18

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Re: Svn

If you don't have shell access, I think there is a clone feature of svn. Look it up on google. You could also import the repo in git so you can work offline. I do this when I'm on the train. You can even send your work back to the svn repo after! Its something like "git svn clone ...." and "git dcommit" I think.

Its actually git svn dcommit, which you would run after you've used git add and git commit like on a normal git repo. It works pretty good, but be careful with branching and merging in git; svn isn't bright enough to handle it properly.

I'm pretty sure I've seen pages that tell you how to import a repo into git and then export it to a different svn repo on a different machine for cases where you don't have a root account on the machine hosting the svn repo.

Dusty

Last edited by Dusty (2009-03-11 13:49:02)

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big_gie

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Registered: 2005-01-19

Posts: 637

Re: Svn

Its actually git svn dcommit, which you would run after you've used git add and git commit like on a normal git repo. It works pretty good, but be careful with branching and merging in git; svn isn't bright enough to handle it properly.

I have found that using git only as a "offline svn" worked well. But I would add: be careful with it anyway, branching or not. I don't know why, but I've lost an two hours of work because git tried to rebase before commiting so it overwrote what I did. I probably did something wrong, I'm still new to git, but I was _really_ angry at it...

Here are some links I gathered:
Converting a Shared Subversion Repository to Git http://notahat.com/posts/25
Git - SVN Crash Course http://git.or.cz/course/svn.html
Moving from Subversion to Git for revision control http://www.aidanf.net/blog/2007/11/22/m … on-control
A Subversion User Looks at Git http://speirs.org/2007/07/19/a-subversi … ks-at-git/
From subversion to git http://vafer.org/blog/20080115011320
How to convert from Subversion to Git http://pauldowman.com/2008/07/26/how-to … on-to-git/