Questions tagged [svn]
The acronym SVN stands for Subversion, a very common and popular Version Control System.
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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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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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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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Do old package versions in CentOS mean that they do not have security fixes?
We asked our admin to update SVN on our CentOS 6.5 server. He did so and the result was SVN 1.6.11. However the current version of SVN is 1.8.9.
I know the CentOS yum repository is not always up-to-...
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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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apache auth: combination of LDAP and htpasswd
We're using Apache with mod_svn to serve the subversion repo. Apache is hooked to an LDAP server so all users can use their domain passwords.
For the build machine to be able to checkout, I want to ...
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Incremental Backups of SVN Repository daily ? (OS = UNIX)
the first part of question how i can make Incremental Backups of SVN Repository ? what is the command do this ....... and how i can do this automatically (OS + UNIX)
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SVN Commit Error
I'm trying to allow multiple users to access/commit to my repo and I'm running into permission issues (as expected). I followed the steps in the SVN book and I'm still getting this error:
svn: ...
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Upgrade Apache from source if the original was installed from an rpm?
(migrated from stackoverflow.com)
Recently I've inherited a set of machines running Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.4. They have been provisioned with Apache Server v2.2.3 installed from rpms. I need to ...
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SSH access from outside to a pc inside network
I have a static IP and ADSL router linked to a linksys wireless router to which all my machines are connected. I would want to setup SVN on one of machines and provide SSH access which should be ...
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Subversion post commit hook checkout to website document root
We have Subversion running on our Debian development server.
We have setup a post-commit hook to checkout the contents of the repository to /var/www/ourwebsite
There are about 2GB worth of files and ...
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SVN SSL Certificate Validation Error
I am running RedHat Enterprise Linux 6 and have a subversion server installed (with Apache). I have just configured Apache to run HTTPS with an SSL Certificate from Geotrust. The Apache part of ...
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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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Difference between the format and db/format files in a Subversion repository
What is the difference between the following two files on an SVN server (ie not in a checked out repository)?
format
db/format
In our repositories the contents of the first is 5 while the contents ...
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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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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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Stopping Microsoft Office 2010 from integrating with Subversion server as if it's Sharepoint
We have an Apache Subversion server that we store (amongst other things) all of our documentation on. We have a lot of Word, Excel, PDF etc. documents in svn, and all of our users use TortoiseSVN as ...
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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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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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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 can I adjust subversion repository file permissions automatically for use w. Apache/DAV?
I've set-up a subversion server accessible with Apache/DAV and after screwing up the repositories file permissions a couple of days ago I started wondering if there's a better way to do this than the ...
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Setting up Redmine With the Bitnami stack installer on Windows Server 2003
I'm running into a problem with the Redmine Bitnami stack intaller on Windows Server 2003. Setting up my project, I'm trying to add a remote subversion repo to the project, but it's erroring out. A ...
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How does AuthzSVNAccessFile work?
I have set up an SVN repo with WebDAV access. For some reason it does not let checkout.
Here is my httpd.conf part:
<Location /svn>
DAV svn
SVNParentPath /home/svn/repositories
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svn Error when commiting-Access denied: 'foobar' MKACTIVITY MYREPO:
I'm currently working with Apache and SVN with ActiveDirectory Authentication. The user is using TortoiseSVN client.
I should point out that I have 2 repos with same name and different mapping but ...
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SVN - Error Rep Repository UUID 'XXX...' doesn't match expected 'XXX..'
Zend Framework's SVN server went down yesterday, now it's back I'm still getting an error from my external 'Zend' directory. Whenever I try to update or switch to another branch I get this error.
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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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vhost setup for multiple SVN repositories on same server
I have 2 svn repos on my EC2 instance.
They are located in /ebs/svn/repo1 & /ebs/svn/repo2.
I have created a domain alias svn.mydomain.com, to point to the parent directory of above (/ebs/svn).
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SVN Authentication with LDAP and Active Directory
I am having a few problems getting SVN authentication to work with LDAP / Active Directory. My SVN installation works fine, but after enabling LDAP in my apache vhost, I just can't get my users to ...
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SVN Backup using rsync command
I setup a cron for taking backup of my SVN repo( 8 GB) to another server. But some times I get errors and I feel that this is not the proper way to back an svn to a remote server.
I used the command ...
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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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Problems with apache svn server (403 Forbidden)
Iv recently setup a SVN server on my papache webserver. I installed USVN http://www.usvn.fr/ to help manage the repositories from a web interface.
When I create a repository and try to import code ...
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LDAP Authentication fails with 500 or 401 depending on bind for Apache2
I'm setting up LDAP authentication for our Subversion repository hosted through Apache on a RHEL 5 system. I run into two different issues when I try to authenticate against Active Directory.
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Certificate problems with Apache LDAPS access
I have a Subversion server running on Ubuntu 11.04 using Apache, and I'm trying to hook the authentication up with LDAPS. I got the Apache config file set up to authenticate against LDAP (sans the S) ...
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How do I configure an ldap server on ubuntu 11.04 ? (for use with subversion and trac)
I have an Ubuntu server 11.04 on ec2 (I'm mentioning this, as it appears things have changed in this version from previous ubuntu releases, when it regards LDAP configuration).
I want to configure it ...
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Cannot access svn repository in correct path
My repository directory is /var/www/svn and access file is /var/www/svn-auth
and I create repository project1 in svn directory
My configuration
svn.mydomain.com.conf
<VirtualHost 127.0.0.1:...
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Setting up SVN on a hosted server
I was just wondering is someone would kindly help me with my installation of subversion on a hosted (dedicated) linux webserver that I'm struggling with.
I have a dedicated Linux server that I rent ...
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Apache, SVN and Active Directory: how to avoid duplicate configuration?
I'm trying to linking the SVN hosted on Apache on a Windows Server 2008 to the Active Directory.
I understood what do I need to do to manage the groups of users on repository level:
<Location "/...
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How to use Linux username and password with Subversion?
I'd like to setup Subversion repository so that same username and password could be used to access repository as in ssh login. I managed to get login work so that correct username is required, but it ...
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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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Apache & SVN on Ubuntu - Post-commit hook fails silently, pre-commit hook “Permission Denied”
I've been struggling for the past couple days to get post-commit email notifications working on my SVN server (running via HTTP with Apache2 on Ubuntu 9.10). SVN commits work fine, but for some reason ...
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Apache 2.2 used to provide access to SVN consumes a lot of memory
We use Apache 2.2 to host SVN repository on a Windows 2003 machine.
Works fine except that over a couple of weeks the httpd process inflates and starts consuming something like 1.5 gigabytes of ...
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Apache LDAPS Authentication
I am having a difficult time setting up an LDAPS authentication for my directory /var/svn.
Here is the configuration file I have for Apache:
LDAPTrustedGlobalCert CERT_BASE64 /etc/openldap/cacerts/...
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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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Cannot commit to SVN repository via http
When I try to import a project into my subversion repository via http, I get this error:
Can't create directory '/usr/local/svn/myproj/db/transactions/0-1.txn': Permission denied
I set the httpd ...
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SVN SSL negotiation failed
I am having issues using svn all of a sudden. When trying to update/commit or create a new checkout I get the following error. I cant seem to find much information about it.
svn: OPTIONS of 'https://...
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What does this svnadmin dump warning mean: "referencing data in rX, which is older than the oldest dumped revision rY"?
I don't understand the reason for this warning:
WARNING 0x0000: Referencing data in revision 6882, which is older than the oldest dumped revision (r7001). Loading this dump into an empty repository ...
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Unable to connect after reboot in Google Compute Engine
Due to excessive use I had to upgrade my machine which led to a reboot.
After that I'm unable to connect through PuTTY, only using Google console.
Also, my SVN repository is there, and I can't ...
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Apache httpd LDAP integration
I am configuring a CollabNet Subversion integration. I have the following collabnet_subversion.conf file:
<Location /svn>
DAV svn
SVNParentPath /mnt/svn/new_repos
SVNListParentPath on
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User directory permissions on SSH server
I have an SSH server running primarily for myself but now have some code I'd like to share with my colleagues through SVN.
I am able to share it with svn+ssh by creating a separate account called '...
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SVN over port 3690 failing over intranet
My company uses subversion (with the svn protocol on port 3690, not over http) with a local server on our intranet. Currently our developers have their SVN clients pointed to the local IP address of ...