Information on using non-SVN directory

[Srikanth Ankem <as...@gmail.com>]

Hi,

I need way of using SVN folder content to non-svn folder.

 

I am using SVN for development environment and then moving the data from SVN
to non-snv directory. Non-svn directory is being used for web html-dir.

Currently I am using SVN export option and then rsync to html-dir.

 

Only issue with this process is, we are exporting all the files every time.
But I want to export only changed files from SVN to non-svn dir.

 

Is there any better way to do this?

Any help is appreciated.

 

Thanks

Srikanth 

Re: Information on using non-SVN directory

[Les Mikesell <le...@gmail.com>]

On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 11:44 AM, Srikanth Ankem <as...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I need way of using SVN folder content to non-svn folder.
>
>
>
> I am using SVN for development environment and then moving the data from SVN
> to non-snv directory. Non-svn directory is being used for web html-dir.
>
> Currently I am using SVN export option and then rsync to html-dir.
>
>
>
> Only issue with this process is, we are exporting all the files every time.
> But I want to export only changed files from SVN to non-svn dir.
>
>
>
> Is there any better way to do this?
>
> Any help is appreciated.

You could use a regular checkout/update instead of export for the
staging copy and the '-C' option to rsync, which is basically a list
of excludes that will skip the svn metadata.   But look at what -C
actually does - if it isn't exactly the right exclude list you can
supply your own.

-- 
   Les Mikesell
      lesmikesell@gmail.com

Re: Information on using non-SVN directory

[Nico Kadel-Garcia <nk...@gmail.com>]

On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 2:11 PM, Les Mikesell <le...@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 1:01 PM, Srikanth Ankem <as...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Thanks for the reply.
> > But rsync does export only the changes file, it does copy all the files.
> > Because SVN creates new version after the update (after checkin).
> Because of
> > this reason rsync is exporting all the files.
>
> Rsync -v may 'say' it is copying a file whose timestamp has changed,
> but it will really only update the timestamp change if the content
> already matches.  That is, it will only copy the differences in
> content (which is the whole point of using it...).
>

If necessary, you can also tell rsync to ignore time-stamps.

Re: Information on using non-SVN directory

[Les Mikesell <le...@gmail.com>]

On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 1:01 PM, Srikanth Ankem <as...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks for the reply.
> But rsync does export only the changes file, it does copy all the files.
> Because SVN creates new version after the update (after checkin). Because of
> this reason rsync is exporting all the files.

Rsync -v may 'say' it is copying a file whose timestamp has changed,
but it will really only update the timestamp change if the content
already matches.  That is, it will only copy the differences in
content (which is the whole point of using it...).

-- 
   Les Mikesell
     lesmikesell@gmail.com

RE: Information on using non-SVN directory

[Srikanth Ankem <as...@gmail.com>]

Thanks for the reply.
But rsync does export only the changes file, it does copy all the files.
Because SVN creates new version after the update (after checkin). Because of
this reason rsync is exporting all the files.


-----Original Message-----
From: Ryan Schmidt [mailto:subversion-2012a@ryandesign.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, February 29, 2012 11:46 PM
To: Srikanth Ankem
Cc: users@subversion.apache.org
Subject: Re: Information on using non-SVN directory


On Feb 29, 2012, at 11:44, Srikanth Ankem wrote:

> I need way of using SVN folder content to non-svn folder.
>  
> I am using SVN for development environment and then moving the data from
SVN to non-snv directory. Non-svn directory is being used for web html-dir.
> Currently I am using SVN export option and then rsync to html-dir.
>  
> Only issue with this process is, we are exporting all the files every
time. But I want to export only changed files from SVN to non-svn dir.
>  
> Is there any better way to do this?

It sounds like the way you're doing it is fine. The export will only require
a bit of disk IO; the rsync to the web server will transfer only the
differences.

You did not say whether you are exporting from the repository or from a
working copy. If you are exporting from the repository, then instead getting
a working copy, updating it, and exporting from that will be faster.

Re: Information on using non-SVN directory

[Ryan Schmidt <su...@ryandesign.com>]

On Feb 29, 2012, at 11:44, Srikanth Ankem wrote:

> I need way of using SVN folder content to non-svn folder.
>  
> I am using SVN for development environment and then moving the data from SVN to non-snv directory. Non-svn directory is being used for web html-dir.
> Currently I am using SVN export option and then rsync to html-dir.
>  
> Only issue with this process is, we are exporting all the files every time. But I want to export only changed files from SVN to non-svn dir.
>  
> Is there any better way to do this?

It sounds like the way you're doing it is fine. The export will only require a bit of disk IO; the rsync to the web server will transfer only the differences.

You did not say whether you are exporting from the repository or from a working copy. If you are exporting from the repository, then instead getting a working copy, updating it, and exporting from that will be faster.