Peter W. Draper wrote:
> On Tue, 5 Jun 2007, Tim Jenness wrote:
>
>> JAC have been using subversion for a while now and we're very keen to
>> migrate the non-Java[1] Starlink CVS repository to a subversion
>> repository at the JAC. After using subversion for a while I feel a
>> weight has lifted from my shoulders (really! - no more worrying about
>> renaming files or moving directories)
>>
>> There will be external webdav access (As well as svn+ssh for people
>> with JAC accounts).
>>
>> This will no doubt break the nightly build system which we may need to
>> either rejig to do a subversion checkout (in the short term) or
>> migrate to other hosts. Norman's nightly commit email will also need
>> fixing. The starlink developer web site will need to be tweaked as well.
>>
Should be easy to fix I think. After a SVN checkout then you just have a
directory structure, the same as with CVS. It should just be a case of
replacing the CVS shell commands with the SVN equivalents.
svn+ssh is a must. The SVN repository could be mirrored here if you want.
Steve.
>>> From experience it will probalby take a couple of days for the
>>> transfer to
>> complete so it will be done over a weekend.
>>
>> What are people's opinion on this?
>
> Number one must be, any ideas how much slower this will be for us UK
> users? From my limited reading about subversion, I'm guessing checkouts
> will be quite slow, but comparisons not.
>
> If that's true any experience with svnsync so we could may have a
> readonly UK mirror?
>
> Peter.
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