Subversion - Set the folder to look in for repos? (server/repositoryname instead of server/var/svnroot/repositoryname)

Question

Right now I am using an absolute path to connect i.e.

server/var/svnroot/repositoryname

I would like to be able to do

/server/repoistoryname

Is there a way to set this up? I would like to avoid symmlinks since that adds overhead. I would rather just have SVN automatically goto the folder similar to how the DocumentRoot works with Apache.

Answer 1

When you run svnserve, use the -r option to set the "root" path. So in your example, launch svnserve like this: svnsrve -r /var/svnroot. Of course you'll want to add your options (-d, --listen-host, etc) in there as well...