> Right - using svn programs to directly modify the svk depot (which is it's > local 'repository'), is touchy. You *can* do it, but you have to be quite > careful about the svk:* properties used to track merges and mirrors. > Generally there's no need, other than perhaps using a read-only client to > make your local work visible to others prior to pushing it upstream. > > However, none of this doesn't mean you can't use svk as your local client > with a normal svn repository mirrored into the depot. In fact, it's > probably the most common use of svk. This is *not* a readonly setup, as svk > knows how to push commits through and back to upstream. Obviously this can > entail conflict resolution if your local mirror has become a local branch, > since svk also allows you to make commits that you haven't pushed back up > yet, but that's not really different than still having it all loose WC > without a local VCS.
Oh, okay, i get it now. :) Thanks for all the clarficiation