Re: Reorganizing our repository

[Krzysztof Krzyzaniak <eloy@kofeina.net>]

Joey Hess wrote:
> Julian Mehnle wrote:
>> How to do it should be obvious (svn co svn+ssh://user@svn.debian.org/svn/ 
>> pkg-perl/packages), but why would one want to do that in the first place?
> 
> When I am a member of a team that's maintaining a set of packages, I
> like to be able to check out all their trunks, so that I can do
> maintenance[1] across the set of packages, not just of one package at a
> time. As I've written here before, not being able to do that with
> pkg-perl makes me less interested in participating in it.
> 
> Anyway, aside from me you already have an example in Gunnar of someone
> who is very active in pkg-perl and who clearly has his own good reasons
> for needing a scalable way to check out all the packages.

For example me, I have full repo on my disc. I've usually do
"for i in */trunk; do (svn update $i); done" but every now and again I
do "svn up", it takes on my machine more than 40 minutes (and it is
2.6GB on disk)


  eloy
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