A couple thousand mp3 files (this is not spam I swear )

2016-08-12 Thread Adam Jensen
Hi, I am considering a use of Subversion as a means to avoid accidentally deleting some important files that I will be working with on a regular basis. I am very interested to get comments on my plan or suggestions for alternative methods. Here's the situation: I have ~1500 mp3 files (not pirated

Re: A couple thousand mp3 files (this is not spam I swear )

2016-08-12 Thread Chris Carman
On Fri, Aug 12, 2016 at 8:56 PM, Adam Jensen wrote: > Here's the situation: I have ~1500 mp3 files (not pirated music), and > the collection is growing. The sizes range from ~100kB to ~300MB. The > content of these files will never change. The directory structure will > change, files will be move

Re: A couple thousand mp3 files (this is not spam I swear )

2016-08-13 Thread Branko Čibej
On 13.08.2016 02:56, Adam Jensen wrote: > I sent this text (^above^) to users-subscr...@subversion.apache.org > earlier today assuming that one need not be subscribed to post. This is > a post-subscribe re-post. > > {https://subversion.apache.org/mailing-lists.html}::("you don't need to > be subscr

Re: A couple thousand mp3 files (this is not spam I swear )

2016-08-13 Thread Adam Jensen
On 08/12/2016 08:56 PM, Adam Jensen wrote: > Here's the situation: I have ~1500 mp3 files (not pirated music), and > the collection is growing. The sizes range from ~100kB to ~300MB. The > content of these files will never change. The directory structure will > change, files will be moved, and new

Re: A couple thousand mp3 files (this is not spam I swear )

2016-08-13 Thread David Chapman
On 8/13/2016 11:07 AM, Adam Jensen wrote: On 08/12/2016 08:56 PM, Adam Jensen wrote: Here's the situation: I have ~1500 mp3 files (not pirated music), and the collection is growing. The sizes range from ~100kB to ~300MB. The content of these files will never change. The directory structure will

Re: A couple thousand mp3 files (this is not spam I swear )

2016-08-13 Thread Adam Jensen
On 08/13/2016 02:21 PM, David Chapman wrote: > On 8/13/2016 11:07 AM, Adam Jensen wrote: >> When a branch is created, are the files under revision control in the >> trunk copied to the branch (is there any duplication of files in the >> repository)? > > No, the files are not copied; a rename is st

Re: A couple thousand mp3 files (this is not spam I swear )

2016-08-13 Thread David Chapman
On 8/13/2016 12:29 PM, Adam Jensen wrote: On 08/13/2016 02:21 PM, David Chapman wrote: On 8/13/2016 11:07 AM, Adam Jensen wrote: When a branch is created, are the files under revision control in the trunk copied to the branch (is there any duplication of files in the repository)? No, the files

Re: A couple thousand mp3 files (this is not spam I swear )

2016-08-13 Thread Nico Kadel-Garcia
On Sat, Aug 13, 2016 at 3:29 PM, Adam Jensen wrote: > On 08/13/2016 02:21 PM, David Chapman wrote: >> On 8/13/2016 11:07 AM, Adam Jensen wrote: >>> When a branch is created, are the files under revision control in the >>> trunk copied to the branch (is there any duplication of files in the >>> rep

Re: A couple thousand mp3 files (this is not spam I swear )

2016-08-13 Thread Adam Jensen
On 08/13/2016 05:31 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: > Don't hurt yourself getting too clever. And don't forget that once > ingested, Subversion is designed to *never let go* of content. > Deleting any in the master simply won't ever clear the content from > the core repository and its history, *ever*.

Re: A couple thousand mp3 files (this is not spam I swear )

2016-08-13 Thread Adam Jensen
On 08/13/2016 08:09 AM, Branko Čibej wrote: > On 13.08.2016 02:56, Adam Jensen wrote: >> I sent this text (^above^) to users-subscr...@subversion.apache.org >> earlier today assuming that one need not be subscribed to post. This is >> a post-subscribe re-post. >> >> {https://subversion.apache.org/m

Re: A couple thousand mp3 files (this is not spam I swear )

2016-08-13 Thread Branko Čibej
On 13.08.2016 20:21, David Chapman wrote: > On 8/13/2016 11:07 AM, Adam Jensen wrote: >> On 08/12/2016 08:56 PM, Adam Jensen wrote: >>> Here's the situation: I have ~1500 mp3 files (not pirated music), and >>> the collection is growing. The sizes range from ~100kB to ~300MB. The >>> content of thes

Re: A couple thousand mp3 files (this is not spam I swear )

2016-08-13 Thread Branko Čibej
On 14.08.2016 00:20, Adam Jensen wrote: > What would an "svnserve.conf" file with "write once" access control look like? There is (currently) no easy way to specify "write once" access for files in the repository; whoever can create a file can modify or delete it, too. You could achieve something

Re: A couple thousand mp3 files (this is not spam I swear )

2016-08-14 Thread Adam Jensen
On 08/13/2016 09:33 PM, Branko Čibej wrote: > There is (currently) no easy way to specify "write once" access for > files in the repository; whoever can create a file can modify or delete > it, too. You could achieve something like that by creating a custom > pre-commit hook that would examine the

Re: A couple thousand mp3 files (this is not spam I swear )

2016-08-14 Thread David Chapman
On 8/14/2016 1:22 PM, Adam Jensen wrote: On 08/13/2016 09:33 PM, Branko Čibej wrote: But note that a rename is represented as an add+delete, so the hook would have to be rather smarter than it would seem at first glance to detect and allow renames without content modification. The literal file

Re: A couple thousand mp3 files (this is not spam I swear )

2016-08-16 Thread Stefan Hett
Hi, On 8/13/2016 2:56 AM, Adam Jensen wrote: My primary concerns are related to any potential file corruption, any data duplication, and/or any excessive network or disk I/O (other than the expected load of direct data communication). Just to have this mentioned: Be aware that the working copy (a

Re: A couple thousand mp3 files (this is not spam I swear )

2016-08-16 Thread Adam Jensen
On 08/16/2016 09:17 AM, Stefan Hett wrote: > Just to have this mentioned: Be aware that the working copy (aka: the > checked out data of the repository) will have a 2x storage requirement > on the data since it will keep a copy of the pristine version of the > file in addition to the "actual" file.

Re: A couple thousand mp3 files (this is not spam I swear )

2016-08-16 Thread Ryan Schmidt
> On Aug 16, 2016, at 2:13 PM, Adam Jensen wrote: > > On 08/16/2016 09:17 AM, Stefan Hett wrote: >> Just to have this mentioned: Be aware that the working copy (aka: the >> checked out data of the repository) will have a 2x storage requirement >> on the data since it will keep a copy of the pris

Re: A couple thousand mp3 files (this is not spam I swear )

2016-08-17 Thread Adam Jensen
On 08/16/2016 09:17 AM, Stefan Hett wrote: > On 8/13/2016 2:56 AM, Adam Jensen wrote: >> My primary concerns are related to any potential file corruption, any >> data duplication, and/or any excessive network or disk I/O (other than >> the expected load of direct data communication). > > Just to ha

Re: A couple thousand mp3 files (this is not spam I swear )

2016-08-17 Thread Adam Jensen
On 08/17/2016 12:55 AM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: [snip] > He means avoid the 2x disk use by using "svn export" instead of "svn > checkout". > [snip] > > Of course Subversion only transfers changes. > Situation summary for the many-large-files scenario. Something like: svn checkout svn://URL/ProjX/

Re: A couple thousand mp3 files (this is not spam I swear )

2016-08-17 Thread Johan Corveleyn
On Wed, Aug 17, 2016 at 9:13 PM, Adam Jensen wrote: > On 08/17/2016 12:55 AM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: > [snip] >> He means avoid the 2x disk use by using "svn export" instead of "svn >> checkout". >> > [snip] >> >> Of course Subversion only transfers changes. >> > > Situation summary for the many-lar

Re: A couple thousand mp3 files (this is not spam I swear )

2016-08-17 Thread Adam Jensen
On 08/17/2016 04:36 PM, Johan Corveleyn wrote: > On Wed, Aug 17, 2016 at 9:13 PM, Adam Jensen wrote: [snip] >> So basically, the checkout method will require twice (2x) the data-set >> size of storage space for a working copy but there would be >> significantly less network load during many of the

Re: A couple thousand mp3 files (this is not spam I swear )

2016-08-18 Thread Stefan Sperling
On Wed, Aug 17, 2016 at 09:09:27PM -0400, Adam Jensen wrote: > What I need (and what I think is generally needed) is a high-capacity, > large-file repository with a focus on data integrity (mandatory audit > trails), sophisticated access control (smart contracts (maybe blockchain > based)), probabl

RE: A couple thousand mp3 files (this is not spam I swear )

2016-08-18 Thread Stümpfig , Thomas
om: Stefan Sperling [mailto:s...@elego.de] Sent: Donnerstag, 18. August 2016 09:46 To: Adam Jensen Cc: users@subversion.apache.org Subject: Re: A couple thousand mp3 files (this is not spam I swear ) On Wed, Aug 17, 2016 at 09:09:27PM -0400, Adam Jensen wrote: > What I need (and what I think

Re: A couple thousand mp3 files (this is not spam I swear )

2016-08-18 Thread Mark Phippard
On Wed, Aug 17, 2016 at 9:09 PM, Adam Jensen wrote: > On 08/17/2016 04:36 PM, Johan Corveleyn wrote: > > On Wed, Aug 17, 2016 at 9:13 PM, Adam Jensen wrote: > [snip] > >> So basically, the checkout method will require twice (2x) the data-set > >> size of storage space for a working copy but ther