On Tue, Nov 05, 2002 at 08:32:43PM -0500, Rodent of Unusual Size wrote: > okey, there seem to be answers to all my concerns (though i have a new one, > below). i'm still +1 in the incubator doing it, and -0 on commons at this > point. > > with all this talk of dav, et cetera -- can svn work with a local repository > without requiring the network or a properly-configured web server?
You betcha! The access control goes out the window, though (*). But given that anybody on icarus has a right to be there, it isn't a big deal. For example: [EMAIL PROTECTED] src]$ svn co https://svn.apache.org/repos/incubator/trunk incubator ... checkout occurs or: [EMAIL PROTECTED] src]$ svn co file:///home/svnrepos/incubator/trunk incubator ... Pretty cool, eh? :-) On the file: case, no server is needed. And no, SVN cannot be piped thru ssh like CVS can. You can tunnel the DAV-based network connection, but that still implies a server on the target box. Essentially, SVN uses the web's SSL infrastructure rather than the SSH-based infrastructure. Cheers, -g (*) the real answer here is a bit more complex, so I'm skipping that for now, to stay focused on the original question. happy to discuss further. -- Greg Stein, http://www.lyra.org/
