[Cosmo-dev] svk for sandbox sync?

[Vinubalaji Gopal]

On Thu, 2006-09-21 at 08:13 -0700, Grant Baillie wrote:


> While people are plugging svk: I've been using svk it for a month  
> now, and am very happy. For each separate feature I work on, I create  
> a copy of the mirrored source tree, and can merge ("smerge" is the  
> svk command) from the mainline at will. I had a local branch of  
> chandler that I was copying out to my svn sandbox every day or two,  
> and svk really made that straightforward.

I have been trying to use svk since this thread started. The thing
becomes complicated because I want to merge the changes back to sandbox
- the SVK FAQ does say about this, but it was not really clear.

Here is my experience with svk:`

I wanted to branch from the trunk and have the branch in my 
vinusandbox/cosmo-new-feature. For eg: right now my new feature is
cosmoacl.

Here is what I did:
I had //mirror/cosmo pointing to the real Cosmo trunk and //cosmoacl
pointing to my sandbox.

I was trying to copy //mirror/cosmo to //cosmoacl (using the copy
command) since some doc mentioned this, but the copy command never
worked and I found out that the only way to do a copy between two remote
repositories was through smerge. (after a lot of trial and error)

Now I have a really nice setup. Svk seems to be really cool and I am
looking forward to leverage it to the fullest. Complete usage details
can be found at 
http://wiki.osafoundation.org/bin/view/Journal/SvkUsage