On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 2:09 PM, Eric Belanger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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. >
Everything is taken care of in archco - I ran it on a couple of my packages last night and it worked fine
