Questions tagged [svn]
The acronym SVN stands for Subversion, a very common and popular Version Control System.
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Subversion hide repository path
How can I configure the subversion server to hide the full repository path from the outside world?
For example, the repository lives under /home/svn/foobar/ ... I want to access it via ssh as svn+ssh:...
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Can Subversion "group" files?
A customer of us wants to introduce locking and versioning of our applications data. We came up with the idea to use subversion/tortoise to do this. This seems simple and pretty straight forward, but ...
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TortoiseSVN through a proxy
I'm trying to set up my Win7 work laptop so I can access my svn repos. My repository is set up on a Linux box at home and works fine from all of the my machines, including my work laptop when I'm not ...
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SVN limitations - Number of users and repositories?
I would like to know if SVN has a specified limitations of how many users and repositories it can sustain?
Thank you.
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providing WebSVN with repo authentication information
I've set up several repos on a network resource that our team access via this format URL:
svn://IP-address/sitename
However, I am struggling to figure a way of enabling WebSVN to access the password ...
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Is there a plug-in for Joomla that will auto-generate content from SVN?
I am considering Joomla for use on our intranet and I was wondering if there was a plug-in for it that would allow pages to auto-generate content from SVN files like Word documents. We have a number ...
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How to optimize svn merge time
I'm working with an svn server that takes an extremely long time to compute merge operations. What can cause this? I've read something that indicates 1.5 is slower than other versions, is this true?
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Where can you get Python 2.6 bindings for Subversion 1.5.6?
I'm stuck at this point with ViewVC
ImportError: No module named svn
I can't find prebuilt Python 2.6 bindings for Subversion, and I can't seem to locate the source for them either!
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Remotely create Subversion repositories and manage user accounts [closed]
Do you know any web application for creating and managing subversion repositories/accounts? I know there are plenty of Subversion web-based clients but none of them seems to handle server-side ...
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Allow access to a xinetd service only when client connects to a specific subdomain
This question is regarding a dedicated server running CentOS 5.4. I can connect as root for hairier configuration tasks if needed.
I'm writing because I've set up svnserve to handle requests using ...
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is git any more or less effecient than subversion? (server load wise)
curious which source repo is more effecient in terms of using server resources, git or svn?
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Read-only SVN on Apache2 under Windows
How can I setup write access policies for an SVN repository under Apache2 on Windows Server 2008? Please help. TIA!
Update1:
I have next configuration already:
<Location /svn>
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Is it safe to zip/tar hotcopied svn repositories?
We want to store our backups of our svn repositories as a flat file. We'd like to tar/zip the whole hotcopied directory. I know that we could dump it to a flat file but let's pretend that we'd rather ...
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setting up a subversion repository on a remote server
I have ssh access to a webserver which has svn. I'm trying to set up a repository via the ssh but I'm not completely sure how. The server is running parallels plesk if that makes a difference.
My ...
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Additional directories for Apache 2.2 dependency probing
By default Apache 2.2 resolves dependencies, i.e. searches additional dlls for loaded modules, using its root directory - bin.
Now I need to copy everything to root, and that litters it a lot. So I ...
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svnadmin dump skip revision
Are there any dangers of skipping a particular revision if I know we don't need it when using svnadmin dump?
I'm migrating to a new SVN server, and one foolish commit of about 1gb worth of images ...
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TortoiseSVN and Putty problems
here is the situation:
successfully installed svnserver on a NAS drive accessible by LAN using this tutorial:
http://forum.synology.com/wiki/index.php/Step-by-step%5Fguide%5Fto%5Finstalling%...
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Where to safely store source code?
Our company already uses version control, and is already doing daily's backups.
However, it is my boss's concern to keep the source code somewhere "safe enough" in case of multi-robbery or some ...
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Trac + SVN: Why post commit hook doesn't work?
I want to use the standard Trac post-commit-hook for SVN.
I'm using Trac 0.11.4 and have downloaded this hook from their site. I've put it into /usr/local/bin/ and chmod +x'ed it.
The post-commit ...
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Loading a project from a virtual machine into Eclipse
Here is the setup - I have a server with the svn repositories containing projects. I have a virtual machine on my Vista computer running FreeBSD acting as a server to test projects locally. Projects ...
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Limiting conections to an Subversion server based on IP
I want to controls which IP addresses can connect to a subversion repository (svnserve) on a windows box.
Is it possible to configure svnserve itself to do this?
If not what would be the easiest way ...
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Sudo svn to update as other user
I want our developers (including moi) to be able to run svn update as user www-data on our server, for file/directory permissions.
My solution was to grant access to run sudo -u www-data svn with ...
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Steps to Create SVN repo properly for the first time
I am a newbie in the world of SVN 'administration' and process documentation for setting up the SVN repository for the first time. I have used SVN for quite a while now; not as an administrator though....
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Suse 10: svnserve exit with signal 11 and hangs
We are using svn (1.6.3)+sasl integration. After installationon on Suse 10.x (64 bits) I found that svnserve hanged sessions ("ps ax" shows more and more hanged svnserve processes). Xinetd logs ...
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Getting the URL of a Sub version repository
WE have a couple of SVN repositories on our Centos server, I want to use one of these repositories, the oly issue I can't seem to find the URL of the SVN repositories if I want to checkout the latest ...
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Why can not add subversion package to my OpenBSD 4.5 machine?
I have an OpenBSD 4.5 on a virtual machine. I configured the net and my machine can connect to the OpenBSD FTP repository in Canada (ftp.openbsd.org) correctly. But when I execute this line:
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Hosted Subversion backups
Does anyone know of any companies out there that provide hosted Subversion backups?
Basically my company would like to replicate our Subversion repositories to a 3rd party hosted Subversion service. ...
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How to disable Apache log just for SVN
I have an Apache running as HTTP server and also a SVN server which is delivered by the same Apache machine.
Configured with something like
<Location /repos>
DAV svn
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Giving apache user the rights to modify subversion repositories
I'm developing a front end to our subversion setup using WebDAV, XSL stylesheets and some php scripts to interface the svn binary. I wrote a simple shell script that sets up a project based on our ...
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Setting Up Subversion Server on Windows 2008 - Access When Ports Blocked
I have a Subversion server set up at home. I can checkout files from a computers both in the same network as the server, and not in the same network using svn:\mydomain.com
The problem comes in when ...
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Continuous integration with CruiseControl.NET -> Automated Installation
We already have SubVersion up and running for some time. Now's the question to implement Continuous Integration via CruiseControl.NET. But I was wondering if there weren't any tools to facilitate this ...
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SSH + svnserve -t command, while still allowing shell access
I'm having some trouble configuring a website hosting server (ex. website.com) that only has one primary user account (ex. ownername), to allow the following:
Users me and friend appear as
the ...
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Serving multiple HTTPS sites with one IP on Apache
I have one machine with public IP currently serving a SVN repository through dav_svn on HTTPS; now I need to install Redmine and serve it on HTTPS too. I also need to be able to connect to both sites/...
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[SVN]: How to backup repository?
If the repository is contained in a folder, is it sufficient to take the backup of this folder instead of typing the commands to create a dump?
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Are Git or SVN coming with a memory footprint?
If you install GIT or SVN (Server Repo) on Linux, will it run any permanent processes i.e. will it leave a permanent memory footprint on my Linux server?
I'm on a server where keeping down memory ...
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consolidate CMS files in one place
We have a system where we use a bespoke CMS on one of our servers. This CMS is used by 30-40 clients. The majority of the files for each client CMS are the same (apart from a few folders)as each time ...
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How to configure SSL for subversion access in windows?
As the question describes, can anyone point to a good documentation or if possible give me the basic steps to configure a windows subversion server (1.4.3) please?
I already have subversion, apache ...
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SVN & Apache via WebDAV
I'm trying to configure Apache to run with SVN. This works pretty well except the authentication.
# /etc/init.d/apache2 restart
* Restarting web server apache2
apache2: Syntax error on line 185 of /...
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Manage config files using hardlinks and subversion?
I'm considering hardlinking config files into a working copy of my SVN config repository. Is there any reason why not to manage config files this way?
Assume /home/user/confmgr/confs is a working ...
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Combining multiple Subversion projects into one project
A few weeks ago we migrated from CVS to Subversion. I choosed to create each project or folder (whatever they are called in CVS) as a seperate project in Subversion and ended up with the recommended ...
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subversion starting as forked process
How do I setup subversion as forked process using ubuntu server 9.10 and subversion 1.6?
I've tried svnserve -i but the svnbook says this is wrong.
I followed the svnbook which told me to tell me
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svnadmin dump --deltas
Are there any particular reasons why I would not want to use the --deltas argument, either for an incremental or a complete svnadmin dump?
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Trac login form
I am having trouble getting the html login form to work instead of the default pop up authentication login form. This is what I have in my trac.ini for the account-manager and components sections:
[...
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recreate svn repository from two working copies
This might be a repeated question from here (recreating svn repository), but I think I should ask this again.
I do not have a most recent back up of the repository but a month old backup. I have ...
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verifying integrity of svn backups
...so I want to back up my Subversion repository and I know how to do that using svnadmin dump.
My question is, what is the best way to verify integrity of the dump files?
I figure I'll use them to ...
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improve our deployment strategy
We have an ecommerce app that we develop at our company. Its a reasonably standard LAMP application that we have been developing on and off for about 3 years. We develop the application on a testing ...
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Apache 2.2 Mod-dav-svn ignores SuexecUserGroup directive
While setting up mod_dav_svn on Apache 2.2.x on shared hosting, I've ran into some trouble. The main problem is that most of the vhosts use their own user/group, websiteX:clientX, and the svn ...
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I want my user to input HIS unix password when he commits, in SVN
How to do that?
I know in the conf/passwd file...you can set the user = pass.
however, I'd like him to enter his OWN pass --local machine.
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What is the best way to manage configuration files across machines?
I am looking to simplify the management of my configuration files across the many computers that I use, what I would like ideally is to check all the config files into SVN and then be able to check ...
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Subversion without Apache
I'm trying to setup a subversion repository without apache (my webserver is using Lighttpd)
Is there anyway I can do that?