On Tue, 8 Apr 2008, Aaron Griffin wrote:
On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 12:10 PM, Eric Belanger <belanger@astro.umontreal.ca> wrote:
Things I would like to know how to do with the new SVN repo: - how to checkout the whole repo and how to update it afterwards
I just want to say that this is not really recommended. The size on disk is huge (SVN keeps a copy of the HEAD revision in the .svn/ directory, so the overall size of the checkout is double that of the actual files). Feel free to do it, but I know I won't be doing it.
Not to mention that fact that one individual package has copies in the repos/ dir too. A package in extra and testing for both architectures has 5 copies of the tracked files (and 5 more for the svn HEAD revisions). So that's a totaly of 10 PKGBUILDs and other files for one package. We have 2500ish last I checked.
Thanks for the explanation. I wasn't aware that it had that much overhead. I'll probably just checkout what I need with archco. One more thing: with cvs we had to export the CVSROOT variable on our local machine. Is a similar step required with the new svn setup or is everything taken care in archco? I'm not at my Arch machine right now so I can't check it. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.