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Re: source control management for Octave
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Stefan van der Walt |
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Re: source control management for Octave |
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Wed, 2 Nov 2005 16:44:20 +0200 |
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On Wed, Nov 02, 2005 at 03:26:38PM +0100, David Bateman wrote:
> I'm not that experienced with SVN, but I thought that it allowed
> distributed management in that a checked-out tree could be used directly
> to create another tree that might be considered the ROOT for someone
> else. If that is the case, can't a simple checkout/update be used to
> replace the rsync.. Sorry I'm not to clear on the details, I've never
> tried this...
A checkout doesn't download all patches in history, as far as I know.
You get the history of a file, but not all its previous states, just
HEAD and HEAD-1. You can therefore do
svn diff file
or
svn history file
But if you reconstruct a repository from it, it wouldn't be like the
original archive. SVK (a perl extension to Subversion) allows for
decentralised version control.
I could be wrong, though.
Stéfan