SVN as a versioning filesystem?

[Carl Brewer <ca...@vivitec.com.au>]

Hello,

I'm considering using subversion as a versioning filesystem
for a bunch of mobile users with laptops and desktop machines - I
use tigrisssvn on my machines to keep track of a bunch of
spreadsheets and the like (inefficient, but disk is cheap ...),
and I like it a lot, but I want to try and use it for some
users who want transparent access to a filesystem (they're
currently using samba, but I want to be able to keep
versions around if possible - with a policy to determine
what to keep versions of and what to just store unversioned)

I know that it's possible to use a DAV server to work with
windoze "my network places" folders, has anyone here any
real-world experience with this sort of thing?  Before I
spend any great amount of time on it I'd like to know
if I'll be able to make it a mostly transparent
filesystem?


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Re: SVN as a versioning filesystem?

[Kyle Kline <ky...@gmail.com>]

I users have been using WebDrive (http://www.southrivertechnologies.com/)
for several months against a Windows/Apache/SVN-based DAV server with great
success. It maps a DAV store as a drive (like W:), and from that point, all
your programs can use it as a normal drive.

-Kyle

On 10/10/05, Alan Knowles <al...@akbkhome.com> wrote:
>
> I've been using subversion+davfs2 for a few years now, and have had
> brief goes at integrating it with windoze.
>
> In general it works pretty will in a pure linux environment, however I
> have come across these issues.
>
> * Webfolders dont appear to allow you to mount the webdav folder as a
> drive. (and getting the apache settings right is essential)
> * Novels Netdrive (unavailable directly now - and looks like it has
> licence issues) - is bugging and can crash WinXP, although seems OK on
> Win2000
> * Sharing a davfs mounted drive via Samba does not appear to work.
> (directory listings break etc.)
> * Sharing a davfs mounted drive via FTP also has similar issues.
>
> In general I gave up with windows and DAV based solutions, but would be
> interested hearing other options too.
>
> Other ideas included writing a filesystem backend driver for samba to
> either use neon, or direct subversion lib calls..
>
> Regards
> Alan
>
>
> On Mon, 2005-10-10 at 16:08 +1000, Carl Brewer wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I'm considering using subversion as a versioning filesystem
> > for a bunch of mobile users with laptops and desktop machines - I
> > use tigrisssvn on my machines to keep track of a bunch of
> > spreadsheets and the like (inefficient, but disk is cheap ...),
> > and I like it a lot, but I want to try and use it for some
> > users who want transparent access to a filesystem (they're
> > currently using samba, but I want to be able to keep
> > versions around if possible - with a policy to determine
> > what to keep versions of and what to just store unversioned)
> >
> > I know that it's possible to use a DAV server to work with
> > windoze "my network places" folders, has anyone here any
> > real-world experience with this sort of thing? Before I
> > spend any great amount of time on it I'd like to know
> > if I'll be able to make it a mostly transparent
> > filesystem?
> >
> >
>
>
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Re: SVN as a versioning filesystem?

[Alan Knowles <al...@akbkhome.com>]

I've been using subversion+davfs2 for a few years now, and have had
brief goes at integrating it with windoze.

In general it works pretty will in a pure linux environment, however I
have come across these issues.

* Webfolders dont appear to allow you to mount the webdav folder as a
drive. (and getting the apache settings right is essential)
* Novels Netdrive (unavailable directly now - and looks like it has
licence issues) - is bugging and can crash WinXP, although seems OK on
Win2000
* Sharing a davfs mounted drive via Samba does not appear to work.
(directory listings break etc.)
* Sharing a davfs mounted drive via FTP also has similar issues.

In general I gave up with windows and DAV based solutions, but would be
interested hearing other options too.

Other ideas included writing a filesystem backend driver for samba to
either use neon, or direct subversion lib calls..

Regards
Alan


On Mon, 2005-10-10 at 16:08 +1000, Carl Brewer wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I'm considering using subversion as a versioning filesystem
> for a bunch of mobile users with laptops and desktop machines - I
> use tigrisssvn on my machines to keep track of a bunch of
> spreadsheets and the like (inefficient, but disk is cheap ...),
> and I like it a lot, but I want to try and use it for some
> users who want transparent access to a filesystem (they're
> currently using samba, but I want to be able to keep
> versions around if possible - with a policy to determine
> what to keep versions of and what to just store unversioned)
> 
> I know that it's possible to use a DAV server to work with
> windoze "my network places" folders, has anyone here any
> real-world experience with this sort of thing?  Before I
> spend any great amount of time on it I'd like to know
> if I'll be able to make it a mostly transparent
> filesystem?
> 
> 


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