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 -- http://derickrethans.nl | http://ezcomponents.org | http://xdebug.org twitter: @derickr