Kevin Rosenberg

I've become a big fan of subversion source control system as a replacement for the venerable CVS. Last year I setup my home directory in CVS as explained by Joey Hess with very good results. About 6 months ago I converted my CVS repository to subversion which retained all my CVS history.

Before switching to subversion, I turned off anonymous CVS access because of security concerns about CVS pserver mode. After a long absense, I have restored anonymous access to my repository -- this time using subversion. First, I setup a public mirror of the subdirectories in my master repository that I publish as open-source projects. This is about 1/10 of my repository in terms of archive size. I have a script setup that updates that mirror on each commit to my master repository. The script also uses rsync to publish the public repository on my high-bandwidth server.

The public repository is available as browsable XML, browsable ViewCVS, and subversion repositories that can be "checked-out". You can browse the projects on my public subversion web site http://svn.b9.com.

I employ a hacked version of enscript with adds color to lisp files.

The subversion package does not currently support mirroring a repository. I tested two mirror tools for subversion: svn-push and SVN::Mirror (svm). I wasn't able to get svn-push to work. SVN::Mirror, though, has worked very well. It has an additional advantage that it allows mirroring a subdirectory of the master repository to a new location in the mirror. With that ability, I choose various directories in my master repository to and mirror them as top-level directories in my public repository.