[Buildbot-devel] source.SVN: Share source directory?, was Re: Some questions

[Dennis Schridde]

Am Freitag, 20. Juni 2008 16:27:18 schrieb Charles Lepple:
> On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 5:58 AM, Dennis Schridde <devurandom at gmx.net> wrote:
> > Hi!
> >
> > As requested by Ben Finney, I split up my questions into seperate emails.
> >
> > Can multiple buildbot.steps.source.SVN with mode=copy share a source
> > directory?
>
> I am not an expert on this, but I seem to remember seeing a dot-file
> in the checked-out working copy that carries some meta-information
> about the checkout. So sharing a source directory would probably not
> work if a later source.SVN step stomps on that file.
>
> > (Or not have one at all, if the svn server is local and can be
> > accessed through file:/// anyway?)
>
> The SVN fsfs repository is not organized in such a way that you can
> use it directly by copying - you still need to run 'svn checkout' even
> if it is local.
>
> Dustin's mode=clobber suggestion will probably save some time if the
> repository is local, though.
Thanks for both of your answers, using that now.
It should save me diskspace, I hope. And I guess checking out from svn is 
nearly as fast as a filesystem copy?

--Dennis
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