"Ben Collins-Sussman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | On 28 Nov 2006 23:16:38 +0100, Gabriel Dos Reis | <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | > "Page, Bill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | > | > [...] | > | > | Up to revision 199 (October 26), the 'svk smerge' transactions from | > | the axiom-developer.org server that are intended to synchronize the | > | Google repository with the SourceForge repository were properly | > | processed by Google. For reasons that I don't understand, the svk | > | smerge process did not automatically create the correct branch | > | structure at Google when we created 'silver' on SVN SourceForge. | > | > I believe 'silver' was created from "scratch", so has not ancestry in | > common with any other branch in the repository -- if my understand of | > your famous picture is correct. It effectively is a | > "repository" within the repository -- essentially, files are | > _duplicated_ as opposed to being shared. For me, that explains the | > sudden surge. | > | | Yep, that would explain it. Branches are supposed to be cheap copies; | they're just a hardlink within the repository, so they're nearly | instantaneous to create and take essentially zero space when they're | first made. I don't know what you did on sourceforge, but it sure | wasn't a normal subversion branch! | | I can reset the google repository to revision 0 if you'd like.
That would be very much appreciated. Bill, before your mirror to the next new repo, please let me make sure that we don't store gcl and noweb as .tar.gz anymore. -- Gaby _______________________________________________ Axiom-developer mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/axiom-developer
