On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 12:15 AM, Nico Kadel-Garcia <nka...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> > Except for the part where not everyone should be forced to reinvent >> > the wheel of 'put the sandbox in a pristine state' as in 'cd ..; >> > rm -r $sandboxname; svn checkout -r $rev $url $sandboxname', but more >> > efficiently and without hitting the network. >> >> Our VCS/CI and build slaves sit in the same lab on a fast network >> (which seems like it would be the common arrangement...) so I've never >> been particularly concerned about hitting the network - that's what it >> is designed for. And the CI knows how to do a clean checkout itself. > > > Some of us have to work through VPN's, and have relatively large checkouts. > A 100 Meg checkout is certainly not unusual in Java environments, > where bulky .war files are common, and that can be really slow over a home > DSL setup or
That seems wrong or at least unnecessarily inconvenient for a CI setup. And if you are doing it by hand, why not just delete everything but your .svn directory and revert? -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com