On Jun 6, 2004, at 10:42 PM, Geoffrey Young wrote:
FYI, Fitz did a conversion of apache-1.3, which is now located at http://svn.apache.org/repos/test/httpd/. (in the test repository).
wow, that's a lot of data - 10 minutes later and I'm still downloading...
Wait! No! You don't want to check out http://svn.apache.org/repos/test/httpd/ ... you want to check out http://svn.apache.org/repos/test/httpd/trunk/
By checking out http://svn.apache.org/repos/test/httpd/, you're getting one copy of the httpd source tree for every branch and tag! That's a LOT of data!
You may want to check out the Subversion book at http://svnbook.red-bean.com/ (esp. Appendix A, Subversion for CVS users).
I guess it goes without saying that most of the people here are intimate
with svn. as someone who just started playing with it about a month ago,
will there be httpd developer guidelines and hints someplace, or is the
existing (copious) svn documentation about it? for instance, I imagine that
for routine patching, etc I'll only need to have a working copy of trunk?
You should never need to check out the root of the repository. Typically, you check out trunk and use 'svn switch' to change your working copy to a branch for branch work. Oh, and branches and tags are typically created without a working copy by operating on URLs.
-Fitz
