Ben,

thanks again for your clarification. Very helpful!

Victor.

PS. and thanks for the svn book!


On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 10:58 AM, Ben Collins-Sussman <[email protected]>wrote:

>
> On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 9:41 AM, V!ctor Adán <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
> > This suggests that svnsync is just doing a playback / record of all the
> > commits. But then the warnings that follow and the constant reference to
> > mirror repositories made me wonder if there was not some kind of
> dependency
> > being created in the target repository.
>
> There is a dependency created in the target repository.  If you look
> at the revision props on r0, you'll see some info that shows that the
> target repository remembers the source repository's URL, and how far
> it got in the last sync.  This allows you to run 'svnsync' as a cron
> job to routinely mirror the latest commits from source to target.   If
> the revision numbers ever get out of step, however, svnsync mirroring
> will break.  In other words, if svnsync thinks it needs to replicate
> revisions 52, 53, and 54 from source to target, and then discovers
> that the target's HEAD is *anything* other than r51, it will error out
> and fail.
>
> In your case, though, it just doesn't matter.  Mirror everything once,
> then toss away the source repository forever.  The target repository
> becomes your new home to continue work in.
>
> >
>

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