Jorrit Tyberghein wrote:
> On 6/7/06, Juhana Sadeharju <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>   
>> Yes, I did mean the files from which the checkouts are made.
>> Instead of downloading several branches/versions, I could
>> download the cvs/svn files and extract any branch/version
>> with any date. If only option to download the svn history
>> is to checkout multiple branches/versions with multiple dates,
>> leading to multigiga downloads, then it is bad.
>>     
>
> Why do you need to have all that info local? Why not just ask the svn
> server for the history and date as needed? I don't understand why you
> need this thing.
>
>   
>> If svn keeps the source code in a database, could you make
>> the database available via web download? Then I could set up
>> my own svn server and checkout any version from there.
>>     
>
> You have to check what SourceForge allows. Keep in mind that we're not
> the administrators of our svn repository. We don't have full access. I
> do think that it is possible to use 'rsync' to the svn repository or
> something. Marten knows more about this.
>   
>> I don't know if normal developers and users need this feature,
>> but I collect the source codes for archival use. E.g., while
>> CS doesn't anymore need the ChunkLOD implementation, perhaps
>> some other project may need to look at the implementation
>> in future.
>>     
>
> Yes, but then you just get that older version in the future. Why do
> you want to get it now?
>
> Greetings,
>
>   
Isn't it possible to get a dump of the whole tree ... that is as in 
"svnadmin dump" which will be a lot to download but it is the full 
repository including the branches and other stuff.


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