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SVN::Web and remote repositories
I've had a couple of journeys in to London over the last few weeks, and I've been able to use the time on the train to include support for remote Subversion repositories in to SVN::Web.
In use it's identical to 0.49, except that you can now specify the repositories to browse using Subversion URLs.
So if you have this config fragment in your config.yaml:
repos:
my-repo:
that still works. But you can now do:
repos:
my-repo: file:///path/to/my/repo
That's no great change. But you can also do this:
repos:
niks-repo: svn://jc.ngo.org.uk/
kde-repo: svn://anonsvn.kde.org/home/kde/
to link to remote repositories and browse them. So if your favourite open source project is using Subversion, but is using SomeOther(tm) web repository browser frontend you can fix that, without insisting that they install SVN::Web
Obviously, this is going to be somewhat slower, so I recommend using the caching options in SVN::Web to speed things up. Also, it only seems to work for file:/// and svn:// URIs at the moment.
See this message http://jc.ngo.org.uk/pipermail/svnweb/2006-September/000018.html for more details. The work's currently on a branch, retrievable with
svn checkout svn://jc.ngo.org.uk/nik/CPAN/SVN-Web/branches/svn_ra/
Feedback welcomed.
an endless discussion thread about what features to include.
-- Jarkko Hietaniemi
Bah (Score:1)
Just for the sake of saying so, It is possible to browse using file, svn, AND http in http://search.cpan.org/~claco/Catalyst-Model-SVN-0.05/ [cpan.org]
That's what powers http://handelframework.com/source/ [handelframework.com]
It wasn't fun, and it wasn't pretty, but it does work. My biggest beef is the fetching content/logs on a tab/branch url. I can't just ask for it by url, since it's a copy; you have to stroll through the logs til
Re: (Score:1)
Do you see much use of the http:/// [http] access? I've done some benchmarking comparing SVN::Repos (file:/// only) with SVN::Ra (file:/// and svn://). Carrying out 11 runs each of SVN::Web's test suite, SVN::Ra takes about 15% longer to run the tests than SVN::Repos.
Re: (Score:1)
The SVN Perl bindings are not so readable. Trolling through C source docs/doxygen (when it works) isn't my idea of usable pod w/ examples.
I was under the impression that Ra, or at least it's perl bindings couldn't do all forms of connections (svn, file, http). I'm sure htt
Re: (Score:1)
That has recently (like, last week) improved, as a big commit was made to Subversion to expand on the Perl documentation and provide more examples.
But yes, I've often had to fallback to writing a short hack to exercise a particular API function and use Data::Dumper on the result to divine what's being returned.
Very cool (Score:1)
This is great. It always bugged me when people would send me to a raw SVN repo URI without a useful web interface laid over it; no need to be annoyed about it any longer I guess. Thanks! :-)