From: Simon Strandgaard <0bz63fz3m1qt3001@...>
Date: 2003-07-24T07:29:03+09:00
Subject: Re: [OT] subversion, was [ANN] RubyForge.org

On Thu, 24 Jul 2003 07:57:10 +0900, Ben Giddings wrote:

> On Wed July 23 2003 5:28 pm, Simon Strandgaard wrote:
>> Please keep it online.. I am following your discussion.
> 
> Actually, so am I.  Where I'm working we have recently decided to move some 
> directories around that are under CVS control, but we're trying to figure out 
> how to do this while maintaining their history.  This got us thinking about 
> CVS alternatives as well.

My current repository-snapshot takes up 4.2 Mbytes!!
 
> ls -la metaeditor-cvsroot.tar.gz
-rw-r--r--  1 neoneye  neoneye  4277338 23 Jul 23:34 metaeditor-cvsroot.tar.gz
>

Most of it is garbage. Im only interested in keeping one directory.
It alone takes up about 0.9 Mbytes.

> du -h
 46K    ./source/Attic
844K    ./source
 40K    ./tools
2.0K    ./Attic
956K    .
>


I really don't want to loose its history info. 
At the same time I want to rearrange the directory structure... !!


Should I upload my 4.1 Mbytes repository to rubyforge  or should do you have ideas for
repository hacking ?


Everyone prefer downloading small nigthly tarballs,  any cvs-suggestions ???

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Simon Strandgaard