Alfredo, On October 12, 2006 11:59 AM you wrote: > > Do you have plans on how to keep SourceForge and Google in Sync. > I see some people on the list asking about this and to put links > in MathAction. > > If you want me to take care of this let me know. >
If you could update the wiki with likes to the Google repository, an explanation of what it contains, and how we expect people to use it, that would be great! :-) I have set up a cron job using SVK sync and smerge on axiom-developer to keep the google repository up-to-date with SourceForge. So far I have only implemented a one-way merge from SourceForge into Google. Changes made at Google will be retained but not automatically merged back to SourceForge. Currently the cron job is set to run once a day at about 3:30 AM Central time (- 0500 UTC). I have just run it so google should now be current with Google. I tried to use 'svnsync' but this failed because it is not possible to use it "after the fact". Our earlier attempt to use it also failed but then due to space restrictions. The current repository was built directly using svnadmin by Ben Collins-Sussman at Google (Thanks, Ben!). But that means we can not use svnsync with it either. SVK smerge seems like a good option. And it can be used in both directions if we decide we also want to merge changes at the Google repostiory back to the repository on SourceForge. One of our original motivations for creating the repository on Google Code was because of network problems accessing the SVN repository at SourceForge. I would really like to know if the Google version works any better. So far my limited experience with it does not make be very optimistic. During the creation the the initial SVK mirror for the Google respository (which is a necessary preliminary step for using SVK smerge) I had to restart the SVK sync three times due to network errors (result truncated) identical to the ones I have experienced while downloading from SourceForge. My fear is that represents some basic and persistent flaw in SVN - however unlikely that might seem since SVN is now rather mature and widely used. But not everyone is trying to use SVN with the https/webdav protocol... Anyway any reports of success or failure checking out or committing to the Google repository would be very useful. Regards, Bill Page. _______________________________________________ Axiom-developer mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/axiom-developer
