On Tue, 8 Apr 2008, Aaron Griffin wrote:

On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 12:10 PM, Eric Belanger
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
 Things I would like to know how to do with the new SVN repo:
 - how to checkout the whole repo and how to update it afterwards

I just want to say that this is not really recommended. The size on
disk is huge (SVN keeps a copy of the HEAD revision in the .svn/
directory, so the overall size of the checkout is double that of the
actual files). Feel free to do it, but I know I won't be doing it.

Not to mention that fact that one individual package has copies in the
repos/ dir too. A package in extra and testing for both architectures
has 5 copies of the tracked files (and 5 more for the svn HEAD
revisions). So that's a totaly of 10 PKGBUILDs and other files for one
package. We have 2500ish last I checked.

Thanks for the explanation.  I wasn't aware that it had that much
overhead. I'll probably just checkout what I need with archco.

One more thing: with cvs we had to export the CVSROOT variable on our
local machine. Is a similar step required with the new svn setup or is
everything taken care in archco? I'm not at my Arch machine right now so I
can't check it.




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