[Python-Dev] HTTPS read-only SVN access is denied?

Amaury Forgeot d'Arc amauryfa at gmail.com
Thu Sep 4 17:06:28 CEST 2008


Hello,

2008/9/4 techtonik <techtonik at gmail.com>:
> On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 1:48 AM, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote:
>>>
>>> I do not need the whole branch - only a small subset of files related
>>> to distutils. I know that bazaar can't do partial checkouts - it can
>>> only fetch the whole branch. What about mercurial?
>>
>> Mercurial can't do it either. But I don't think it matters a lot; unless your
>> bandwidth is very low the full clone should be fast enough. Here it takes just
>> 150s. for the trunk.
>
> Thanks for support. However, fetching whole branch is not an option, because
> Internet is expensive here - even 10Mb tarball costs 20 cents. To make matters
> worse I would say that it is more than 0.04% of an average salary.

Did you try to open your browser to (for example)
http://svn.python.org/projects/python/trunk/Lib/distutils/
and download the desired files from there?


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Amaury Forgeot d'Arc


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