<div>I'll be home in a few days, so no hassle, but i've kept a note of all the tips and tricks. It may be a good idea to do a bootable usb stick, and take that instead. Seems to be a solution for not only updates, but emergency boot as well.</div>
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<div>Thanks for all the info and advice fellas.</div>
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<div>Alex.<br><br></div>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 7:56 PM, Gabriel M. Beddingfield <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gabriel@teuton.org">gabriel@teuton.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div class="im">alex stone wrote:<br>> My problem is i have no net access for the laptop, so i'm reinstalling<br>> everything with a constant transfer process with an install disk, and a usb<br>> stick. (And i should say here i've installed Debian Lenny ppc, which worked<br>
<br></div>A USB Ethernet adapter is, what... US$30? In the past, I've been known to spend<br>HOURS trying to invent a Rube Goldberg scheme<br>(serial-to-morse-code-to-serial-to-ethernet chain) to avoid spending $30. I<br>
usually regret it (and my family *always* regrets it).<br><br>Just a suggestion... now on to what you asked....<br>
<div class="im"><br>> Is it possible to simply download (Save as..., for instance) from an up to<br>> date cvs or svn build, to an isolated download file, then transfer the files<br>> to my usb stick, without using CVS or SVN to do so?<br>
<br></div>YMMV on installing CVS, SVN, or Git on a USB stick... but it seems plausible to<br>do. I often have PuTTy installed on a USB stick so that I can SSH from any<br>Windows computer without having to install software.<br>
<br>1. Subversion<br>=============<br><br>SVN has an export feature that you could use to download the latest copy.<br><br>C:\> E:\bin\svn export <a href="http://path-to-repo/project/trunk" target="_blank">http://path-to-repo/project/trunk</a> E:\data\project<br>
<br>To grab a specific revision, I think the syntax is:<br><br>C:\> E:\bin\svn export -r 666 <a href="http://path-to-repo/project/trunk" target="_blank">http://path-to-repo/project/trunk</a> E:\data\project<br><br>Alternatively, you could have a working copy on the stick:<br>
<br>C:\> E:<br>E:\> cd data\project<br>E:\> E:\bin\svn up<br><br>I've never tried to install Subversion on a USB drive. Last time I downloaded<br>the Windows version of Subversion, Collab.net appears to be doing stuff like<br>
asking for registration information, and offering a limited set of packages and<br>install methods.<br><br>2. Git<br>======<br><br>Git has a great deal of support for offline usage. There's also a git-svn<br>connect that provides a bidirectional connection to a Subversion repository.<br>
Also, if the server supports it, you can export any revision to a tarball using<br>'git archive --remote'. There's also a command called 'git bundle' that is<br>designed for exactly this sort of incremental and off-line updates.<br>
<br>However, getting Git installed on Windows is a chore... especially if you're<br>trying to install it to a USB stick.<br><br>Using Git with Mingw on Windows, watch out for repositories that (when<br>compressed) approach 2GB. (Not typical for a coding project, though.)<br>
<br>3. CVS<br>======<br><br>Messs hatessses CcccceeeVeeeeSssssss.<br><br>4. PuTTy<br>========<br><br>If you have shell access to some other computer (a university account, a<br>friend's server, whatever)... you could much more easily set this stuff up.<br>
When you want to update things and download them, you can do it via SSH using<br>PuTTY and PSFTP -- which I have installed on a USB drive very successfully.<br><br>HTH,<br><font color="#888888">Gabriel<br></font>
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