22 Feb
2009
22 Feb
'09
1:56 p.m.
alex stone wrote:
My problem is i have no net access for the laptop, so
i'm reinstalling
everything with a constant transfer process with an install disk, and a usb
stick. (And i should say here i've installed Debian Lenny ppc, which worked
A USB Ethernet adapter is, what... US$30? In the past, I've been known to spend
HOURS trying to invent a Rube Goldberg scheme
(serial-to-morse-code-to-serial-to-ethernet chain) to avoid spending $30. I
usually regret it (and my family *always* regrets it).
Just a suggestion... now on to what you asked....
Is it possible to simply download (Save as..., for
instance) from an up to
date cvs or svn build, to an isolated download file, then transfer the files
to my usb stick, without using CVS or SVN to do so?
YMMV on installing CVS, SVN, or Git on a USB stick... but it seems plausible to
do. I often have PuTTy installed on a USB stick so that I can SSH from any
Windows computer without having to install software.
1. Subversion
=============
SVN has an export feature that you could use to download the latest copy.
C:\> E:\bin\svn export http://path-to-repo/project/trunk E:\data\project
To grab a specific revision, I think the syntax is:
C:\> E:\bin\svn export -r 666 http://path-to-repo/project/trunk E:\data\project
Alternatively, you could have a working copy on the stick:
C:\> E:
E:\> cd data\project
E:\> E:\bin\svn up
I've never tried to install Subversion on a USB drive. Last time I downloaded
the Windows version of Subversion, Collab.net appears to be doing stuff like
asking for registration information, and offering a limited set of packages and
install methods.
2. Git
======
Git has a great deal of support for offline usage. There's also a git-svn
connect that provides a bidirectional connection to a Subversion repository.
Also, if the server supports it, you can export any revision to a tarball using
'git archive --remote'. There's also a command called 'git bundle'
that is
designed for exactly this sort of incremental and off-line updates.
However, getting Git installed on Windows is a chore... especially if you're
trying to install it to a USB stick.
Using Git with Mingw on Windows, watch out for repositories that (when
compressed) approach 2GB. (Not typical for a coding project, though.)
3. CVS
======
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4. PuTTy
========
If you have shell access to some other computer (a university account, a
friend's server, whatever)... you could much more easily set this stuff up.
When you want to update things and download them, you can do it via SSH using
PuTTY and PSFTP -- which I have installed on a USB drive very successfully.
HTH,
Gabriel