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 ====== 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 _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
