On Friday, October 07, 2011, Lubos Kosco elucidated thus:
> yes, you need a checkout (for every SCM type, no exception)
That is extremely disappointing. Granted, SVN Searcher (which I tried
first) took up way to much disk space, it would access the repo
directly. Bummer.
> also symlinks are not a good thing to index and currently some of
> them are ignored and I discourage usage of symlinks
A symlink in src pointing to the root of the repo seemed to work.
> source root is where the checkouts live
OK.
> OPENGROK_REMOTE_REPOS is a trigger variable to disable the remote
> repo support, which is on by default
OK...then can you explain "remote repo"? If a checkout is required,
then what is a "remote repo?"
> the repo will be detected from appropriate command (svn parent?) or
> files (CVS/Root , .svn???, .hg/hgrc , .... )
Understood.
> I thought OPENGROK* variables are documented at the beginning of the
> script
They are...but apparently there are still some gaps in my understanding.
:)
Thanks for the answers!
j
>
> xing the fingers
> L
>
> On 7.10.2011 7:25, Joshua J. Kugler wrote:
> > In the OpenGrok wrapper, the comment above the definition for
> > "SRC_ROOT"
> >
> > says:
> > # REQUIRED: Source Code/Repository Root
> > # (your source code or the root of all repositories)
> >
> > I made src a symlink to the path containing my SVN repo (the repo
> > itself, thus the root of the repository), but when it indexed, it
> > indexed the files in that tree (/var/lib/svn) instead of indexing
> > the files that were actually in the repository.
> >
> > I also found:
> > # OPTIONAL: Remote Repository Support (CVS or SVN)
> > # (Can be very time demanding, uncomment if needed)
> > REMOTE_REPOSITORIES="-r on"
> > if [ -n "${OPENGROK_REMOTE_REPOS}" ]
> > then
> >
> > REMOTE_REPOSITORIES=""
> >
> > fi
> >
> > If I set OPENGROK_REMOTE_REPOS to
> >
> > file:///var/lib/svn
> >
> > will that work? (nope, it didn't)
> >
> > I don't see any other documentation for variable. In fact, I don't
> > see much documentation on the OpenGrok site relating to the
> > wrapper, or configuring which repository to use (especially remote
> > repositories).
> >
> > I'd really like to avoid having a checkout of my entire repository,
> > and instead have OpenGrok access the respository directly.
> >
> > I also tried removing the src/ symlink, making it a directory, and
> > placing a symlink to our SVN repo in there, but it still tries to
> > index the files themselves (db/revprop, etc), not the files in the
> > repo (my source files).
> >
> > What am I missing?
> >
> > j
>
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