Subversion Proxy for working offline?

Question

What is the best approach for working at a customers site (with several people) where there maybe not internet access the whole time and using a subversion repository?

(Migrating to Git or Mecurial is out of the question at the moment)

But wouldn't it be possible to leverage something like, for instance the Git SVN Integration, to create a proxy which acts like a subversion repository for the clients and may be used at the end to synchronize the changes back to subversion? Is there already something like that available?

Answer 1

I think svk may provide what you are looking for.

Answer 2

You may be able to use SVK which is a set of Perl scripts built upon Subversion that offers some DVCS-like functionality. I have used SVK before but only in a very simple way. I understand that it can do this sort of offline proxy operation.

Answer 3

Actually, there is a tool in Git called git-svn. You can find more information here: http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-svn.html

You use git as your primary VCS, and than sync with SVN repository.

Answer 4

Not enough rep to comment yet, but I wanted to point out that svk is officially 'dead'; the project is no longer being improved by the previous maintainer, which was pretty much one guy. Essentially, the maintainer of the project said: "svk was cool, but now everyone knows that you should use distributed tools, so it's not worth maintaining anymore."

The official 'end of life' style blog post can be found on Best Practical's website, in their blog post on the topic.

That said, svk is probably still the right tool. Even if a git-svnserver existed, you wouldn't be able to do multiple commits remotely using the SVN client. However, learning SVK isn't really all that different from learning git. In the end, I think that git-svn is probably the tool you want, because your use case -- Using the SVN client to commit multiple changes then push to a server -- isn't possible. The backend can stay SVN or what have you, but you're going to have to learn some different client, and git is probably the right one.