From: Dick Davies <rasputnik@...>
Date: 2004-04-22T20:59:27+09:00
Subject: Re: OT: VCS systems (was Re: Dormant projects (was Status of AOP in Ruby) )

* Austin Ziegler <austin@halostatue.ca> [0432 12:32]:
> On Fri, 2 Apr 2004 03:54:31 +0900, Dick Davies wrote:
> > True, but that's not a killer for me. I hate its slew of dependencies,
> > not least apache2 and db4. Nice if you like that kind of thing, but it
> > means you have to svn dump your repos to get them into another system,
> > and it takes an afternoon to install it. yuk.

Since posting that , someone suggested building a static svn binary
to drop onto boxes, then you can do stuff like checkout /home or
/etc from a central server - sweet, you avoid all the deps and get 
full VCS of all your files (and all your eggs in one basket :) ).
 
> The db4 dependency is not going away, but you can run SVN in a standalone
> mode without using Apache2 and WebDAV. That's how I run SVN now.

I originally set it up without apache, it was the db4 stuff I didn't 
like - apache2 has helpfully screwed my repo this morning, so now
I get to play with db4_recover, probably because it was only 
group writable or some other nonsense. Yay for backups, eh?

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