ZIP download link for folders in repo browser

[ttest@…]

Sometimes I want to access data in my repository on a computer where no svn client is available/installed/permitted. Instead of downloading single files I would like to be able to just download complete folder contents zipped together in one file. From my perspective compression which would be expensive in terms of CPU time is not necessary.

[Alec Thomas]

You mean like this: download:discussionplugin?

This was accomplished with a Subversion post-commit hook that zips up all of the top-level directories, and the GeneralLinkSyntaxPlugin to add the download:<x> links.

[Alec Thomas]

#69 has some discussion of this as well.

[ttest@…]

I was thinking of a way that can be realized without a configuration change to the repository. Changing the configuration would be kind of uncomfortable. Also I was thinkink of having a link to a zip file for every folder that's shown under 'Browse Source'. This would also mean that the ZIP files would have to be dynamically generated for every download request.

[Christian Boos]

Note that Trac itself has a ticket for this (​#T238).

It's already available in the ​trac:TracDiff branch, which is likely to be integrated by the end of 2005.

I'll follow-up here when it's done.

[ttest]

Thanks for the info.

I don't know what the policy is here, but I guess we can close this ticket.