The acronym SVN stands for Subversion, a very common and popular Version Control System.
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Subversion error: (405 Method Not Allowed) in response to MKCOL
I am getting the following error while trying to commit a new directory addition.
svn: Commit failed (details follow):
svn: Server sent unexpected return value (405 Method Not Allowed) in response to ...
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Subversion error: Repository moved permanently to please relocate
I've set up subversion and apache on my server.
If I browse to it through my webbrowser it works fine (http://svn.host.com/reposname).
However, if I do a checkout on my machine I get the following ...
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How can I set proxy for subversion with ssh tunnel?
I want to check out/update the code via proxy since my local connection is slow. I setup ssh tunnel : ssh -D 8090 user@ssh.proxy.net
to forward all the packets to my localhost:8090.
How can I set up ...
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What should I consider to secure SVN on Windows? [closed]
Currently I am using VisualSVN Server 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 ...
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Add directory structure to SVN, without files
Hey,
is there a way to add a directory structure to an svn repository without adding the files contained in the folders?
Regards,
x3ro
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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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What ways there are to backup repositories for Windows VisualSVN?
At this moment we are using Visual SVN and we are backing up the entire repositories directory for visual svn. This backs up the entire data for each repository inside our svn engine. I am curious ...
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TortoiseSVN missing file in update
We have occasionally had a problem with TortoiseSVN (I assume it's Tortoise and not our SVN repository), where a file will be checked in to the repository (doing a repo-browser you can see the files ...
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How can I switch an existing set of Subversion repositories to use ActiveDirectory? (svnserve/windows)
I have a set of private Subversion repositories on a Windows Server 2003 box which developers access via SVNServe over the svn:// protocol. Currently we have been using the authz and passwd files for ...
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Where to maintain central source repository?
What is the industry best practice regarding securing access to source code? I am thinking SSL only connections via apache allowed over to our server on an obscure port that doesn't conflict with ...
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E-mail notifications of SVN commits
Do you have any recommendations for a relatively turn-key SVN checkin notification system?
I'm looking for something that allows a summary of repository files changed and the contents of the actual ...
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“SSL error parse tlsext” on large commit to SVN via Apache, Gentoo
This happens only on large commit (resulting in a failed commit):
Revelant section from virtual host config in Apache
<LimitExcept GET PROPFIND OPTIONS REPORT>
Require valid-user
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I get Killed by signal 15. when I'm using svn
I'm using svn+ssh and I see a number of:
Killed by signal 15.
during a svn up.
Any ideas way?
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Safe to have /.svn/ folders on live site? (How to remove them but retain svn update capability?)
I'm doing svn update to update the code for my php website, but it leaves .svn/ folders all over.
I think its dangerous to leave those files publically readable, but its very easy to update the ...
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Best way to do Subversion backups?
What is the best way to do Subversion backups (on a Debian based server).
Is it to use svnadmin?
svnadmin dump /path/to/reponame > reponame.dump
Or maybe just to tar the dir where the ...
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SVN+SSH Security
I use snv+ssh with key based authentication. Right now in order for any of my svn users to access the repository through Subversion, I must set the repo files to be readable and writable on the ...
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How to get the url of the current svn repo?
I have 2 svn checkouts that someone setup for me. Now I need to check these same files on another computer, but since I didn't check them out initially I don't know the urls to use when running the ...
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SVN inside another SVN
I have simple project that is in SVN and everything works fine.
I want to use code from another SVN server in folder inside this simple project.
How can I do this?
I want to have the ability to ...
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Hosting multiple repositories (svn, hg, git)
I've recently acquired a dedicated server, and need to move several repositories to it from a source control hosting service. Having not much experience in server administration however I have no clue ...
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SVN client authentication error
I have the following error when ever I try to connect to a SVN server on my network:
Could not authenticate to server: rejected Basic challenge
Can anyone help?
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recreating svn repository
after a major server fault, svn repository was destroyed and my working version is most current one,
what is the way to recreate svn repository from my working version?
after installing svn on a new ...
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Subversion Client for Windows Vista
Can someone recommend me, free if possible, subversion client for Vista?
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What are the gotchas of moving an SVN server/repository from Linux to Windows?
We have a server running Fedora 7 that we use as our SVN repository server. New IT policies where I work are mandating that we to a Windows box if we want to allow our server to be on the network.
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Ignoring .svn directories under IIS
We are a web development organization and have recently moved to using subversion for our version control system. Since executing an update is so much faster than doing an export and copying over the ...
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How to upgrade v2 to v3 FSFS subversion filesystem
Firstly, I am trying to reintegrate a branch with the trunk (using TortoiseSVN) but I am getting the error message "Querying merge info requires version 3 of the FSFS filesystem schema; filesystem ...
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How Do I Restrict Repository Access via WebSVN?
I have multiple subversion repositories which are served up through Apache 2.2 and WebDAV. They are all located in a central place, and I used this debian-administration.org article as the basis (I ...
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What are your tricks for optimizing your Subversion configuration?
For a Linux or Windows system, what tricks do you do to optimize your Subversion server?
The following are my current tricks for a Linux system serving over Apache with HTTPS and backed by Active ...
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Linux & SVN: How to remove all versioned files but KEEP directory structure, ignore .svn dirs?
I want to remove all the versioned files from my repository, but KEEP the versioned directory structure. Obviously I want to leave all the .svn directories untouched.
In other words, I want to ...
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Svnserve authentication with SASL and normal user accounts
Is it possible to set up svnserve so that it authenticates using the system's users and passwords (e.g. using the /etc/shadow file)? I assume this would be with SASL, but I couldn't find an SASL ...
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SVN: Where is my repository?
I'm trying to backup my SVN respository.
My problem: I forgot where I put my repository on the hard disk.
How can I find this?
FYI: I'm using TortoiseSVN if that helps.
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Software Versioning Software
I am looking for a small software versioning (changelog) and bug submission system with a web-frontend.
The features I only need is a change-log where users can see what they can expect and a tiny ...
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Simple web-frontend for remote svn administration?
We run a SVN repository. Some of our more advanced users need to be able to perform some SVN administration without relying on the system administrator.
They need to be able to do things like create ...
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How do you accept an SSL certificate through the SVN command line?
Is there an command line option to auto accept a SSL certificate permanently using the SVN commandline in a way that avoids the prompt?
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Are there any benefits to running Subversion server on Linux as opposed to Windows?
We currently run CollabNet Subversion on a Windows server. I recently got the opportunity to move the Subversion server to another machine, and I basically have the choice between a Windows server or ...
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Which Version Control Systems support LDAP/AD users and groups
Does anyone know which of the big players (if any) support LDAP/AD users and groups for authentication AND database permissions? Specifically, I'm wondering if SVN, GIT, Mercurial etc. will allow ...
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Upgrade Subversion 1.6 to 1.7 on CentOS? (can't find yum repository)
I want to upgrade my SVN Server from 1.6 to 1.7. Unfortunately I can't find anything on the internet how to do this with yum. I have checked rpmforge-extras but it has only svn 1.6 and not 1.7
I ...
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How/when to create trunk, branches and tags directories in a new subversion repository?
When's the best time to create the trunk, branches and tags directories?
I have executed svnadmin create --fs-type fsfs /home/firefli/web/projects/subversion and have myself a blank repo. If I ...
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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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(svn+ssh) getting bash to load my PATH over SSH
This problem comes up with me trying to make svnserve (Subversion server) available on a server through SSH. I compiled SVN and installed it in $HOME/bin. Local access to it (not through SSH) works ...
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Best way to create an SVN-Mirror?
I am currently looking into the best way to set up an SVN mirror. I currently see three possibilities all with their own drawbacks:
Have an SVN post-commit-Hook that is blocking and syncing via ...
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Mixing Subversion “SVNParentPath” and per-repository configurations?
Given a typical Subversion/Apache configuration using SVNParentPath, with repositories hosted
under /svn/ like this:
<Location /svn>
DAV svn
SVNParentPath /srv/source/svn/repos
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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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Setting up SVN server for multiple users over http
The SVN annotate feature is quite powerful and makes quick work of who to track down for a particular feature on a particular line of code. This feature is rendered slightly more limited (but still ...
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How to disabled password authentication for specific users in SSHD
I have read several posts regarding restricting ALL users to Key authentication ONLY, however I want to force only a single user (svn) onto Key auth only, the rest can be key or password.
I read How ...
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Subversion path differences for svn and svn+ssh
[02:48][root@server:~] ps ax | grep svn
23986 ? Ss 0:00 /usr/bin/svnserve -d -r /srv/svn
As you see from arguments my svn root dir is /srv/svn.
Now, some magic from remote machine...
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How can I do daily backups for my VisualSVN Repos?
How can I do daily backups for my VisualSVN Repos?
Its on a Windows Server 2003 machine with VisualSVN Server, I was thinking about just doing an xcopy of the folder C:\Repo but I'm not familiar ...
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How do I merge two svn branches?
I have two svn branches checked out, "b1" and "b2". I would like to merge all of my commits from the "b1" branch onto the "b2" branch. I have tried something like
svn merge -r HEAD:HEAD b1 b2
but ...
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Which HTTP methods does Subversion use?
Our company's proxy server does not allow some HTTP methods which are used by Subversion's http protocol. As I will contact our IT support to enable them, I wonder what the full list of those methods ...
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Confused about setting up subversion
I've already compiled and installed subversion,
now trying to add users to it.
And I find two articles on this, but they seem to be going in entire different direction.
The 1st is here, which looks ...
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SVN Novice : Setting up new repo
I am a novice when it comes to using SVN on a command line. Previously I had done everything through a client.
I have created a new repository on my server like this:
%svnadmin create myrepo
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