comparing svn and cvs somewhat

From: Chuck Robey <chuckr_at_telenix.org>
Date: Sun, 05 Apr 2009 13:36:32 -0400
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I have gotten a local copy of the svn repo going on my home here, by using
svnsync, which seems (by what I've read and been told) to be the right method.
I'm wondering about a feature that is there for cvs, in cvsup, but which seems
to be missing in svnsync for svn.

What I'm after is a much better way to maintain a local repo than what I'm
seeing now in maintaining my svn repo, with svnsync.  The main feature that I
think I'm missing is the ability to be able to compare files on a central server
 (something serving all FreeBSDers) to files on everybody's personal repo, and
to automatically update them if there isn't a perfect comparison.  I'm not
talking about the varying ways that your repo might get damaged, but I think
that svnsync only knows that you have a particular revision number, not that the
file is correct.  If your repo gets damage, I think that nothing exists to
automatically fix it.

So, if this feature IS something that's already available in svn, I'd like to
here a summary of what tool to use the how to do it, so I can verify myself that
what I'm thinking about already exists.  That'd free me to begin writing
software, to see if I could implement such a feature.  I'm not truly certain of
this, but it seems to me that implementing such a feature, using something like
Python, would be very easy to do.  Could end up with a svn version of cvs's
cvsup.  Maybe, call it svnup?  I'm terrible at names, if you think that name
makes no sense, please, tell  me so.

Second question, maybe a more difficult one, I wonder if such a feature would be
a popular one, or perhaps, something extremely outside of the way that we would
want our repo's to be maintained?  Maybe FreeBSD doesn't want to allow folks to
have their own repos?  I think that this ability, to make sure that your home
repo is correct, is missing now for svn, I need to know if this is right, and
that if the ability suddenly showed up, would that be a Good Thing or a Bad Thing?

Whatever, it seems like a very fun thing to write, I hope it's not already written.
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