Can I have one project in two SVN repositories?

Question

Our I.T. dept doesn't allow connections to the SVN server from outside the physical office. (They're just kind of like that.) I need to work on projects when I'm not at the office.

I could just check out the project and wait until I come in to do a check-in. Maybe that would be best. But I like to check in frequently. I'm wondering if there's some way I can keep a project in two repositories and keep them both up to date. That way I'd always be able to check in somewhere in case my HD dies. I have my own repository on a VPS server that I use for personal projects.

I investigated the svn switch command. With my current project in both repos I tried switching my working copy from personal to work SVN servers...

$ svn switch --relocate svn+ssh://personalvps.com/svn/project/trunk svn://worksvn/project/trunk
svn: The repository at 'svn://worksvn/project/trunk' has uuid '2baef97e-42ce-488c-bbba-c2625158c643', but the WC has 'f13e1f32-dc92-4c4a-b84d-34a59fe32063'

Then I tried adding the --username and --password params but got an error saying "no entry found."

Is this even possible or is it totally impractical?

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UPDATE

Thanks for the answers. Unfortunately, any solution that involves action from I.T. (slight policy change, change a setting somewhere, install something) is not on the table. I have to find a solution within the current setup, which is no connections from outside except our Web servers.

I'll take a look at distributed version control.

Answer 1

You could use SVN with another (local) repository on your laptop. Look for the popular git or SVK. These allow you to commit to the local repository first and then sync all commits to the main SVN repository.