[Axiom-developer] RE: Google Code repository

[Page, Bill]

Alfredo, 

On Thursday, September 21, 2006 6:02 PM you asked:
> 
> > When I try this anonymous checkout:
> >
> > $ svn checkout http://axiom.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ axiom
> >
> > it fails immediately with:
> >
> >   svn: PROPFIND request failed on '/svn/trunk'
> >   svn: PROPFIND of '/svn/trunk': Could not read status line:
> >   An existing connection was forcibly closed by the remote host.
> >     (http://axiom.googlecode.com)
> >
> > ----------
> >
> > It seems like subversion just does like me. :-(
> >
> 
> I repeat it the checkout and it works here. :( . I do not know
> what is going on. That was in your windows or linux box?

This failure occured on subversion 1.4 on Windows - but I am
behind a strict firewall and proxy. It is possible that webdav
is not fully supported here. I will try later with a linux boxen.

While pulling my hair out about subversion last night, I did
management to find out something very useful, I think.

It is possible to use rsync to make a direct backup of our
subversion archive at SourceForge using the following commands:

  $ export RSYNC_PROXY=rsync-svn.sourceforge.net:80
  $ mkdir -p ~/repo/axiom/branches
  $ rsync -v -a rsync-svn-a::svn/axiom/* ~/repo/axiom/branches

See:

http://sourceforge.net/docman/display_doc.php?docid=31070&group_id=1#bac
kup

Then you can checkout a copy of the souces directly from this
local mirror!

  $ cd ~
  $ pwd
  /home/page
  $ svn info file:///home/page/repo/axiom/branches
  $ svn co file:///home/page/repo/axiom/branches build.improvements

It's fast! because rsync uses a very efficient network protocol
and file:// access is just local.

Please give it a try and let me know if it works for you. 

Regards,
Bill Page.