On Jul 13, 2011, at 12:08 AM, Steve deRosier wrote:

>> Wrong. Subversion's file:// access method goes straight to it. The worst of 
>> this is the tendency of Windows people to put the repository on a shared 
>> file server with multiple users using the file:// method on the same 
>> repository at the same time.
> 
> Not wrong at all.  CVS and RCS have the same thing, you can make your
> "server" be some directory somewhere else on your local disk.  Which I
> pointed out actually.

You said to the effect one must "set up a server no matter its only you and 
your laptop." Suspect you are confused with the popularity of using WEBDAV with 
svn. This is all it takes (without WEBDAV):

mkdir testproject
cd testproject/
svnadmin create /Users/dkelly/SVNROOT
touch testfile.c
svn import file:///Users/dkelly/SVNROOT/test -m "New Project"

> It doesn't mater where the "server" is.  CVS,
> SVN and Perforce are all client-server designs. Period. Which, if
> you'll notice, you acknowledge the weakness of getting around the
> client-server design of SVN by directly accessing via the file://
> access method on shared Windows discs (CVS has a similar bad history
> with people trying to put it on NFS mounts BTW).


Client-server is a *strength* not a weakness, it allows a surrogate process to 
manage access rights between multiple users. But contrary to your claims 
requires no additional effort for single-user use. A single user would never 
know subversion spawned other processes without looking hard.

--
David Kelly N4HHE, [email protected]
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Whom computers would destroy, they must first drive mad.



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