How to take an archive home

[Martin Rubey <ma...@univie.ac.at>]

Dear all,

I would like to use svn to archive my work. However, since I have only a modem
connection at home, I have to do the first checkout by other means.

Ideally, I'd like to burn the freshly imported archive on a cd, take it home,
and copy it on the harddisk there.

The important point is, of course, that svn update at home should then know
that the archives are in sync, and only copy files modified after this first
checkout.

How can I go about this?

Martin

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Re: How to take an archive home

[Martin Rubey <ma...@univie.ac.at>]

"Andy Levy" <an...@gmail.com> writes:

> As long as you copy the .svn directories as well, you can burn your
> whole working copy at work to CD, bring it home and put it on your
> hard drive.  Make sure everything is RW (when copying off CD they may
> end up read-only).  Then you can run svn up on that WC on your home
> computer and as long as you can access the URL, you're set.

Oh, that means, it "just works"! Great!

Thanks a lot,

Martin

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Re: How to take an archive home

[Andy Levy <an...@gmail.com>]

On 25 May 2006 20:06:11 +0200, Martin Rubey <ma...@univie.ac.at> wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I would like to use svn to archive my work. However, since I have only a modem
> connection at home, I have to do the first checkout by other means.
>
> Ideally, I'd like to burn the freshly imported archive on a cd, take it home,
> and copy it on the harddisk there.
>
> The important point is, of course, that svn update at home should then know
> that the archives are in sync, and only copy files modified after this first
> checkout.
>
> How can I go about this?

As long as you copy the .svn directories as well, you can burn your
whole working copy at work to CD, bring it home and put it on your
hard drive.  Make sure everything is RW (when copying off CD they may
end up read-only).  Then you can run svn up on that WC on your home
computer and as long as you can access the URL, you're set.

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Re: How to take an archive home

[Nico Kadel-Garcia <nk...@comcast.net>]

Martin Rubey wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I would like to use svn to archive my work. However, since I have
> only a modem connection at home, I have to do the first checkout by
> other means.
>
> Ideally, I'd like to burn the freshly imported archive on a cd, take
> it home, and copy it on the harddisk there.

Don't. Putting filenames that start with ".", such as ".svn"", on a CD can 
create all sorts of fun issues, as can other non-ASCII characters in 
filenames. (I don't believe in naming files with non-ASCII names, but some 
people do, and it can cause adventures.) Or better yet, avoid the whole 
problem and use a USB memory stick instead of a CD.

Instead, do the checkout on a machine at work, then zip it up or make a 
tarball, then put *THAT* on a CD. And ideally, do the checkout on the same 
kind of OS as your machine at home, to avoid fun and games with any files 
with end-of-line characters set differently. Also, if you're using 
TortoiseSVN, make sure that the _svn or .svn option is selected the same way 
on your home machine and your work machine.

Then take the zip file home and uncompress *THAT* locally, or copy it 
straight from the memory stick. 

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