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.
>
>> 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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