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You can usually rsync the whole lot at first then and checkout from the copy. Then fiddle with the SVK config to set upstream to the real origin. OR have admi
by emmelaich 4y ago
You can usually rsync the whole lot at first then and checkout from the copy.
Then fiddle with the SVK config to set upstream to the real origin.
OR have admins do a local checkout on the server for people to rsync, then do other appropriate config fiddles.
- danudey 4y agoIf you have that access, you should use svnsync instead. For a large repository, running rsync can take hours just hashing all the individual files on either end to compare, just to eventually update one or two revisions. svnsync is much more 'aware', and so it's much easier to keep up to date if necessary.
- emmelaich 4y agoTrue. Or just zip/tar it up and then rsync that. To be clear I was talking about a one time thing, not continued updates -- which would be done with SVK