The acronym SVN stands for Subversion, a very common and popular Version Control System. The subversion book is an excellent reference, source it in your SVN answers! Please link to the latest stable release of the book. Links to the nightly build will eventually break when sections in the book are ...
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Setting up SVN server on Windows 7
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My OS is: Windows 7 Ultimate and IDE is Netbeans. Want to work with 2-3 devs on PHP projects. After research I found that it's possible with GIT. Found this solution. But it's installing apache ...
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Why can't I view my repositories in Subversion?
I just installed Subversion (from CollabNet) on a Windows 2008 machine.
I created a test repo named, 'test`.
Using TortoiseSVN, I can browse to this URL:
http://dev1-new/svn/test
But I can not ...
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Media Being Hosted In SVN For Web Application
I have a client who decided to use SVN to host the media files and pulled by a web application for viewing. What are the consequences of this, and wouldn't a better option be to use a NAS or CDN?
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Setting up an SVN Server using SVNServe in Amazon ec2 Ubuntu Linux
This has been a headache. Where to begin? So far, I've followed this article, along with its follow-up tutorial and my output when I try to do
svn+engine_ssh://[insert-elastic-ip-here]/var/svn/test
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Apache forward https port 4434 to non https port on internal server
Im trying to set up a subversion edge server that is accessible from outside my network, I have one public IP and so the main webserver proxies to other internal server, i got the non https port ...
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SVN Authentication over Apache (DAV) and Redmine not work
NEED HELP!!! I installed apache2, svn and redmine on an ubuntu server. After that I tried to do my authentication for svn over the redmine accounts.
My apache config looks like this (stored in ...
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Jenkins missing SCM options after networking IP change
We recently changed our internal network IPs and I believe this has caused Jenkins to only list "none" under the SCM options in the job config. Previously the jobs were configured to pull from a ...
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subversion - how to tell the format of an existing repository
Is there a way to tell the format of an svn repo on disk, without knowing how it was created? Possibly from the format or db/format files?
This question has lots of useful info about the different ...
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svn: Too many arguments to import command
Having a problem with the --message flag to the svn import command. On some servers it works, but on others it gets confused if the message contains spaces, even if you single or double quote the ...
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What is the Difference between svn and git [closed]
What are the pros and cons of git and svn. We are suppose to use a subversion systems. Any body have a idea.
Thanks in advance.
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Bash SVN Post Commit Hook
I have a working post-commit hook bash script that syncronises a Trac instance with the latest revision for an SVN commit.
#!/bin/sh
TRAC="/var/trac/"
REPOS="$1"
REV="$2"
if [[ "$REPOS" = ...
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Apache SVN: Access to repository forbidden via client, HTTP is okay?
SVN on my webserver seems to have broken after I made some changes. It's configured to be part of one HTTPS virtual host, not universally accessible. My SVN clients give the error 'access to (repo) ...
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Using samba for svn repository
Is it a wise idea to access an SVN repository via Samba?
I have read of issues when one does that via NFS - is it the same for Samba?
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Pretested commit with Jenkins?
I got a request from the man upstairs to setup Jenkins for Pretested commit (through a build at Jenkins, if all unit tests and other pass then commit it and build a dist). We're using svn here.
Is ...
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Tortoise SVN checkout via LAN
I have recently installed Tortoise SVN on Windows and have two computers, A and B. On both machines I installed TortoiseSVN and they are connected Via LAN and I have my repository saved in computer A. ...
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VisualSVN Server 2.5.2 reports “413 Request Entity Too Large” when attempting to commit multigigabyte files
I'm getting the following error, when attempting to commit large files (multi-gigabyte) to a new local installation of VisualSVN 2.5.2 Server on a Windows XP machine.
"413 Request Entity Too ...
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Best practices for backing up databases
I asked this on stackoverflow, but someone pointed out it would be better to ask here.
Let's assume Subversion and MySQL on a RAID NAS. What are the best practices for backing up data?
I was ...
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files from subversion repo mounted as DAV, get zeroed out shortly after writing
I have a subversion repo with
"SVNAutoversioning on"
which usually allows webDAV clients to make changes to files without a checkout-edit-commit cycle, and this works well for some subset of the ...
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How to uninstall ubersvn in Ubuntu?
I cannot find a good/official way to do this in Ubuntu.
The best one I got from googling is this post.
So how can we completely remove UberSVN after installing it?
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Subversion - What is the purpose of txn-protorevs
I have a Subversion server and into one of the Subversion repositories, I got this directory under the db directory:
txn-protorevs
which contains the following files for me
119M 1-4.rev
0 ...
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svn server export timing out
for some reason svn export commands are failing: Small repo checkout is failing... Maybe 100Mb of files.
[Mon Jan 09 19:09:19 2012] [error] [client 10.250.14.61] Provider encountered an error while ...
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svn:external in git [migrated]
A little background:
I have a project that used to be in an SVN repository, that had an svn:external folder from outside of the project tree. This external folder is very essential and is required ...
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SVN Lock - Unable to lock file from svn client - Tortoise client
We have a debian based SVN server with version 1.1.4-2(Pretty Old), When I try to lock a file it shows as below image, Nobody is able to lock any file. Can you please guide me how to solve this ...
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Problems with umlauts and git-svn
I've got the following problem:
I checked out an GIT-repository created by tortoise-git under windows. German umlauts like "öäü" are shown as \x-Codes under my linux.
That's basically no problem ...
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Shared SVN-powered web development with branching on Apache
We're a web development shop and have our sites checked out from SVN on a single development server via samba, like this:
share/
site1/
trunk/
site2/
trunk/
branches/
...
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Add Subversion to XAMPP Apache install
I am trying to get my Apache server restarted after trying to install Subversion.
I have added the following lines to my httpd.conf file for Apache:
LoadModule dav_svn_module ...
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apache / svn custom authentication using custom module
I would like to set a svn server where some user can have access from local area network only and some special user who can access using internet / wan.
I could not find any way to do the above so ...
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TortoiseSVN Function as a remote viewer of Linux-based Repository
I'm currently trying to run TortoiseSVN as a "remote viewer" of an existing repository on a Linux RHEL server (running svnserver). This should in theory be possible, if the 'shell' interface works as ...
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Can't install Tortoise SVN 1.7.3 on Windows Server 2008 R2
I'm trying to install just the Tortoise SVN client on my windows server 2008 R2 and get the following error message:
Could not create key:
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Subversion Checkout Yields Could Not Open the Requested Subversion System
I've installed subversion on our RHEL server and also installed dav_svn_module. My location tag in httpd.conf is as follows:
<Location /subversion>
DAV svn
SVNPath /subversion
AuthType Basic
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Is it possible to get svn to authentication with windows/sspi, but with username aliases?
I have a VisualSVN server running on Windows 2008 R2 x64 using basic authentication.
I want to upgrade to use windows authentication.
However, some of the usernames set up do not match the domain ...
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How to avoid IE8 trying to create a WebDAV connection for office documents in subversion?
We have currently a weird problem when navigating a subversion repository on Windows 7 with Internet Explorer 8. It works like that:
A user opens the internet explorer 8 and enters a Subversion URL ...
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svn: The specified baseline is not the latest baseline, so it may not be checked out
I am facing a strange problem while performing a svn commit operation. On linux(suse), when I try to commit, svn fails and gives the following error.
svn: Commit failed (details follow):
svn: The ...
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TortoiseSVN Error: Unable to Connect to a repository at URL
I'm using TortoiseSVN to connect to a newly-created repository on my RHEL server. I did svnadmin create reponame as root to create the repository. I simply want to checkout the repository using ...
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SVNAdmin Load Returns Checksum Mismatch
I'm trying to load a svn dumpfile onto my RHEL server. The dumpfile was loaded from our old Ubuntu server and I used svnadmin create reponame and then svnadmin load --quiet reponame < ...
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Permissions issue with Windows 7, SVN, and a Unix file share
Alright, I've got a nasty legacy environment setup.
Users develop cold fusion code on Windows desktops.
They use SVN (With Tortoise as their client) to check out code.
They check out directly to a ...
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VisualSVN Server giving 405 Method Not Allowed
I'm trying to commit some files to a Subversion repository hosted in VisualSVN server, it's started giving me an error message I haven't seen before:
Error: Commit failed (details follow):
Error: ...
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Unable able to update the SVN projects branch
Unable able to update the SNV projects branch. We have given the read and write privilege for the user on the project branch.
After some files got updated, 403 forbidden error occurs as below.
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Subversion and MySQL while working in a branch how to merge database changes?
I'm just starting to use subversion and if I copy the trunk to a branch to work on some new design and features. Should I create a copy of the production database. Connect to this new development ...
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Is it possible to integrate svn from different host?
I have a web account, which host my current website/project at XXX hosting company, but with very few privileges. And I signup for a free svn hosting at YYY company. Issit possible to integrate my ...
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etckeeper implementation in subversion (SVN)
How to setup etckeeper in subversion (SVN).I get to know that etckeeper works with git , mercurial (hg) etc, but it doesn't works with subversion.
I am stuck with this etckeeper implementation in ...
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how to install svn on ubuntu linux
how to install an svn client in ubuntu 11.04 ?
step by step please?
am new to this,I got used with windows tortoise svn gui client
thanks for the help in advance
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Handling username changes in Subversion server with Windows Authentication
I have a Subversion server (version 1.7.2) that is fronted by Apache 2.2.21 using basic Windows/Active Directory authentication. Really it's just using the Visual SVN Server 2.5 package with Windows ...
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Change all commit authors in subversion
I will perform a subversion migration from the built-in authentication against the central LDAP server using sasl. As part of this change, the usernames will be modified, from username to ...
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move Gentoo Linux server with Subversion to new location
I'm moving a Gentoo Linux server with Subversion SVN running on it this weekend to a new physical location, with a new IP address.
My question is:
Do I need to do anything other than change the IP ...
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Apache returning 207 multistatus response when listing SVN repositories through DAV
I am trying to configure the Polarion SVN Client to access multiple SVN repositories through the SVN WebDav module. Polarion is failing with a NullPointerException because its DAV client is not coping ...
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Creating svn repo programmatically from a webpage and sudo
We want to automate the creation of the svn repos and trac environments for new projects. Basically, this would mean creating a web script that got some info (like env and repo name, etc) from the ...
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How to limit login attempts to Subversion?
We set up a Subversion server via the Apache module mod_dav_svn and the authentification is done via LDAP.
Now we would like to limit the login attempts to Subversion to prevent brute force attacks.
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Accessing network share through a debian OS
I am trying to move the SVN backup files from the local directory to a NAS device via Putty and I am using the following syntax, however I am receiving the below error message -
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What considerations should I make for securing subversion? [closed]
Currently I am using VisualSVN and it's only accessible on my home network. Eventually there will be others accessing it, but for now it's just me and I would like to be able to go down to the coffee ...
