22 Feb
2009
22 Feb
'09
3:35 p.m.
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.
Thanks for all the info and advice fellas.
Alex.
On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 7:56 PM, Gabriel M. Beddingfield <gabriel(a)teuton.org
wrote:
alex stone wrote:
--
Parchment Studios (It started as a joke...)
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/trunkE:\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
======
Messs hatessses CcccceeeVeeeeSssssss.
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
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