Questions tagged [svn]
The acronym SVN stands for Subversion, a very common and popular Version Control System.
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SVN / SASL authentication error: failed to init cipher 'rc4'
im trying to update an old project via SVN and get this: SASL authentication error: SASL(-1): generic failure: internal error: failed to init cipher 'rc4' openssl tells me RC4 is disabled by default ...
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Subversion wildcard access not allowing users to delete files
I am using Subversion 1.10 which claims to work with wildcards in path authorization. I have a large group of project folders (2000+) containing restricted and unrestricted sub-folders in each Trunk ...
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ldap not working with svn
Authentication fails with password mismatch error whilst trying to login to svn repo. Following is the config for 10-subversion.conf Tried everything but nothing seemed to worked including changing ...
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Svn CLI cannot connect to repo, but TortoiseSVN inside Wine and CLI on other Computer in same network *can*
[I hope this is the right StackExchange network for this, was not sure whether this belongs more here or in the Unix+Linux one] Previously, I was simply using the svn CLI on my linux laptop, ...
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Project specific LDAP authorization for SVN
I am using Apache 2.4 on Ubuntu 14.04 and SVN 1.8.8. I have installed SVN server and created a number of repositories (one per client). For each team working for each client, I added configurations ...
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SVN running on RHEL 8 Authentication issue
Good morning, I support a subversion server running on rhel 8. The engineers check in/out software builds from a CentOS6 desktop. I need to add authentication to the SVN URL because it's wide open. ...
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List all tags in SVN repo
If I run svnlook tree -N /path I get a list of the top level folders in the SVN repo like this: / tags/ trunk/ But what I need to see is a list of the current tags. I know I can turn off -N but ...
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VisualSVN - svn status Error W155007
I'm trying to write a post-commit hook that will zip all the changed files saving the directory tree. When I try to do a svn status on a repository directory (with conf, db, hooks directories etc.), ...
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Large files change randomly upon access
I have a weird case of errors. Single bytes of big binary files seem to change randomly but consistently. For example I copy a large dump via scp (5 GB). And when I make sha256sum it is different then ...
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Encrypt SVN issue
could anyone advise how to encrypt SVN , Plan to encrypt or disable the SVN from asking if unencrypted passwords should be stored? We never want a user to be able to do that. Would encrypting the ...
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Connection reset by peer after firewall swap
I have been working on a connection reset issue with SVN traffic after my client's firewall was replaced by a Sophos XG model early last year. Previously had Sonicwall. I opened multiple cases with ...
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Subversion repo inside a repo
It appears that some bright soul has created a repo inside of an existing repo. Will this work? Are there any problems that might result from this? UPDATE 001: As requested, here is a list of the ...
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Apache 2.4 and LDAP. Basic authentication issues
I'm using CentOS 8 Stream + Apache 2.4 + Subversion. I want to allow access to SVN only for users who belong to a specific LDAP group (svn-users). I have the following problems. case 1. Enter the ...
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Subversion Server with Azure AD SSO
There is a running CollabNet Subversion Edge Server in the current version 5.2.4. It is currently connected with LDAP for authentication. Now there is a challenge to grant permission to b2b guests of ...
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Subversion SSL handshake failed and 408 error code
Versions Subversion: version 1.6.11 (r934486) Operating System: CentOS release 6.8 (Final) Background I have a variety of shell scripts that run as cronjobs on a CentOS machine. The shell scripts ...
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Subversion repository throws HTTP 403 Bad Request when accessed via https & Kerberos (Windwos Integrated) authentication
We encountered this problem with different versions of OS & Subversion on the server side, the following details being the same: We used https protocol to access the SVN repositories. We used ...
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SVN repo "Not a Working Copy" after server replacement
We had a Mac server die on us. All the data was stored on a RAID so transferring that to the replacement machine was seamless, but some of the folders were SVN repositories. I have installed SVN on ...
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How to bring changes from subversion repo to current directory
For bash command on linux. I was thinking perhaps svn import but not sure.
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svnserve with selinux on nfs mount unable to start (Centos8)
might be a silly question. Struggling with my subversion server on a Centos8 with selinux enforced. We have an NFS mount to store the data (/mnt/data/svn). The problem (when selinux is in enforcement ...
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Unix group-based access control with SVN over Apache
I have an SVN repository hosted over HTTPS wiht Apache 2. In an attempt to unify access control lists for SVN as well as other services on the server, and prevent having to deal with multiple copies ...
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SVN server start at boot
I'm configuring Subversion and want it to start at boot. Used following command series: sudo mkdir /var/svn sudo useradd -r -s /bin/false svn sudo mkdir /etc/svn sudo cp /home/zipo/svnserve /etc/svn/...
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Change Console and repo browser certificate for Collabnet svnedge
I need to change ssl certificate for our collabnet svn edge console and repo browser. I came across few documentations for changing ssl on console by creating new svnedge.jks file and replacing it ...
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SVN client not updating file in working copy
After I update my WC (working copy), one of the files is still in an old revision. As it can be seen bellow, svn info command shows that last changed revison for file getOdSum.php is 403. But it's not ...
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SVN-LDAP group auth
i want to give access to SVN to specific LDAP (AD) group (svn_access), this configuration works on old server but on the new one it's not. My config <Location /> DAV svn SVNParentPath /...
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SVN, check out folders based on authz
I've setup a svnserve service on freebsd and trying to figure out the best way to control the auth. I have root folder A and sub folder A1, A2, A3 A-- |-AdminFolder |-Project1 |-Project2 ...
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svn apache prevent anonymous read dav_svn.authz
So I have gone through about a dozen other threads as well as read the http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.8/svn.serverconfig.pathbasedauthz.html I feel like I have tried everything, and either there is ...
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SVN accept expired certificate with expired root certificate
I need to push some code to a server which has woefully out of date certs. The cert expired 2000 days ago, and the root cert expired a month ago. I attempted to use the solutions posted in dozens of ...
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Let's Encrypt with Bitnami, with some odd port numbers
I recently (and I think it was on either ServerFault, StackOverflow, or some other StackExchange forum) found out that Bitnami stacks provide a tool for using Let's Encrypt, one that apparently uses ...
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ImportError: No module named svn.core Python Traceback
I am working on the Setup of the Subversion server in one of my environments using RHEL 8 Apache 2.4 Subversion 1.10.6 Python 2.7 Viewvc 1.2.1 Apache & Subversion installation has been done ...
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Subversion wildcard access not working
I am using Subversion 1.10 which claims to work with wildcards in path authorization. I have a large group of project folders (2000+) containing restricted and unrestricted sub-folders in each Trunk ...
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No such revision subversion
We use version svn 1.6.12. After recovering lvm on the machine, it gives an error when connecting : svn: E160006: No such revision 12526. In the revs directory there really is no such revision 12526 ...
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Retrieve SVN data from File System
One of our virtual machines is down and cannot be restarted. Fortunately, I managed to access to the virtual disk file and got all my data back. I wonder now if there is a way to retrieve the ...
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SSH agent forwarding is not working when SVN+SSH
I'm trying to automate the deployment of an SVN repository (with a web app) over multiple production servers, without installing any private key on the servers. The SVN server is hosted on srv3, and ...
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How to restrict access to my subversion server (i.e. svnserve) by IP address, so only my IP can checkout, commit, etc.?
I'm using Ubuntu and I have my subversion server running as you can see below: root 31422 1 0 06:45 ? 00:00:00 /usr/bin/svnserve -d -r /var/svn/repos --log-file=/var/log/svnserve.log ...
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mod_authnz_ldap: Using userPrincipalName and sAMAccountName with AuthzSVNAccessFile
this is my first post here, so please be kind with me ... We have apache managing access for our subversion server. Currently users can only log in with their sAMAccountName, but since ...
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Installing SVN on Centos 7
I am pulling my hair out on this, I am in the process of migrating a website and SVN server to a new Centos host, for the last few days I have been trying to get SVN working to no avail. I have been ...
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svndumpfilter to extract specific folder from repository dump
I have visualsvn server with many repository. One of the team requested to exract few folders from project repository, But I am stuck while extracting it. Here is the structure. E012345-------------...
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CentOS 7 lost data when power off
I have an issue. So I don't know why. My server is CentOS 7. I installed Subversion server on it. Last week my server has error when Power Off. After server restart. Newest SVN's data was lost. Only ...
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SVN repo 3 times smaller after dumping/loading
I have a repo on an old svn server running on RHL9. svn version is 1.1.4. The repo is 1.1GB large (du -sh $REPO), its full dump is 1.7GB large. I load the dump on a recent svn server running on ubuntu ...
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SVN admin run out space in tmp
I'm trying to run svnadmin pack on a large repo that lives in an SSD that have enough space. But svnadmin using system /tmp folder. /tmp lives in a root partition and only got 2 GB left. So operation ...
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How to install svnmucc on Amazon Linux?
I have an AWS Linux machine running Amazon Linux: Linux XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX 4.4.30-32.54.amzn1.x86_64 #1 SMP Thu Nov 10 15:52:05 UTC 2016 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux And I am trying to install "...
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Move projects between two SVN repository
Our main svn repository went down due to a hardware failer 2 weeks back so I had to set up temporary local svn in an Ubuntu box to keep the development running with recovered working copies from local ...
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Cannot login after apache basic to digest change
I have a private svn server handled by apache2. I recently read about the difference between AuthType Basic, which I had, and Digest. So I enabled the latter. But now any attempt at login now asks ...
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subversion intermittently hangs (stalls) on commit
Whenever any of our SVN users try to commit to the repository after the server has been idle for a while (e.g., first commit of the day), the Commit dialog hangs for precisely one minute, regardless ...
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Problems using svn merge --reintegrate (subversion 1.6.17)
I'm trying to use the Subversion merge --reintegrate feature to merge a development branch back to the project trunk. Subversion version 1.6.17 on Fedora 14. I get the following [me@fedora14 ...
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Download URL for HEAD revision of a file in VisualSVN
With VisualSVN server, you can get a direct download link like this: http://myserver/!svn/ver/15/file.txt by navigating to the page for a speicfic file and clicking download. Is there a simple url ...
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Backup and Restore on Debian 9 or Ubuntu 16 destroys "svnversion" performance
Is there any way to back up and restore a filesystem that doesn't upset svnversion. If I try the following set of operations: Check out a big SVN repository, and build the code Back up the SVN ...
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What is the difference between mod_nss and mod_ssl?
I am setting up an apache subversion server to use secure certificates for kerberos authentication with an AD domain. I have successfully got it to work with mod_ssl with ssl.conf config below, but ...
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Diff local directory and svn repository without checking out the files
Is it possible to diff a local directory (not a svn checkout) and a remote svn repository without checking out the repository to another local directory beforehand? I need it for linux (debian) but ...
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Restrict access to an SVN repo to members of one group
I have a few dozen SVN repos that must be accessible to all users, and a single repo that needs to be restricted to just one group. I've tried setting up my .svnaccess file like so: [groups] special =...