SVN Juggling

[AF]

Im working on AFLobby and I dont intend to do a public commit until Im ready to show people what Ive done. But until that time Id still like the security of a versioning system, and I can set my own svn up.

But that involves having one piece of work in two reposiories, and I dont want to have 2 copies and have to deal with copying it all to the spring svn folder without copying the .svn files and then adding and deleting all the files that were added/deleted in the other svn folder.

So is there any easier solution?

[Peet]

Are private branches possible using SVN? That way you could work on the current svn server and merge when you're ready for it to be public?

[AF]

the branches folder in the root folder of a repository is purely convention, and is basically the same as trunk or tags, and since access privileges apply to the whole repository and not individual sections, I doubt it is possible.

[det]

SVN relies on the central server to work. Your local copy is little more than a cache. What you need is a Distributed RCS. There are tools for Mercuial (hgsvn) and Git (git-svn) that can will let you interact with the a central SVN server while still making local commits.

[imbaczek]

svn doesn't support such workflow. what you want is a DVCS. git will do you fine, as there is an svn mirror set up already.

[AF]

Git is not an option. I'm under vista and MSYS has a horrendous bug that causes 200 empty msys windows to appear then they start closing themselves and the process ends. Its totally unusable.

[imbaczek]

ouch. no good solution for you then, I'm afraid. you could try svk.

[malric]

the branches folder in the root folder of a repository is purely convention, and is basically the same as trunk or tags, and since access privileges apply to the whole repository and not individual sections, I doubt it is possible.

Access priveleges can apply to individual folders in SVN also. Of course it depends on the exact SVN configuration (apache or svnserve etc). So a private branch is a solution.

[det]

You can use mercurial. It has good windows support which includes either the base distribution for command-line support or TortoiseHG for windows explorer integration.