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Questions tagged [svnserve]

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[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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Sorry for the beginner question. I am trying to set up a SVN server for the first time. I have the server running but every time I try to checkout I get an error: No access allowed to this ...
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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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Will subversion accept usernames such as [email protected]? We are using svn+ssh with public key authentication as per the official svn guide's ssh tips and tricks section. Basically, we ...
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Either svnadmin dump or svnadmin export will only has a snapshot of a certain version. How to keep all change logs when immigrating to another server? Will it be OK to just copy the /repositories ...
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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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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 of ...
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What happens when svnserve gets stopped (SIGKILLed) while a commit [to an FSFS repository] is in progress ? (I mean has svnserve been made robust enough to handle this, say upon restart, or must the ...
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Whilst trying to commit some files to SVN, we're suddenly all getting this error Can't move '/usr/local/svn/articles/db/txn-protorevs/2002-8.rev' to '/usr/local/svn/articles/db/revs/2/2003': ...
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After apt-get update/upgrade svn server and client were installed, but any svn operations leads to following error: svn: E200019: Version mismatch in 'svn_subr' (expecting equality): found 1.9.4, ...
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on Ubuntu, I have SVN setup. I have created a repository called 'siteinabox' and imported the files. On the same machine, I can checkout via file:// This command works: Input: svn checkout file:///...
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I am trying to connect to my repository on Debian Linux using the svn:// protocol. I immediately receive the following response: svn: E170013: Unable to connect to a repository at URL 'svn://...
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I have svnserve configured to run from inetd and svnserve.conf set to use sasl for authentication. This is so I could allow access to some repositories by users who do not have system-wide accounts ...
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I've setup svnserve with SASL authentication and encryption for encrypting the traffic. Anonymous access should be allowed. My configuration file conf/svnserve.conf (with comments stripped) looks like ...
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I was asked to run the subversion with http and svn protocols on CentOS 7 os. Installed apache and subversion. The issue arises when apache and subversion are to access the repository. Apache works ...
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How can I configure svnserve to run as a service. svnserve -d -r /var/svn/ just works until the server is restarted. Edit1: server details root@vps [~]# uname -a Linux vps.example.com 2.6.18-...
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I have installed SVN 1.8 and I have created repository in /var/svnrepos/svn/ directory. When I run SVN server with this command in terminal, everything work great and access from client to URL svn://...
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I am trying to authenticate subversion users against sasl+ldap. Other questions about this problem seem to be related to earlier versions of subversion, or sasldb authentication. lsb_release -a No ...
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I am trying to configure my Subversion repositories to use a global groups file (coming from the output of LDAP Groups to Subversion Authz Groups Bridge script) in conjuction with the use of a per-...
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I maintain the computers and write software to control experiments and collect data at the research lab where I work. I run a subversion server (installed with brew) on the OS X machine at my desk. ...
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Today, out of the blue one of our team mates tried committing to our SVN repo and the SVN server replied with: Error running context: No connection could be made because the target machine actively ...
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When I first set up SVN on my server, I opted for the WebDAV http://... access method. However, I could not find out how to enable multiple repositories with this configuration. With this method, any ...
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I know these are noob questions, but I never got my own Subversion running before and I'm kinda lost. I installed VisualSVN in Windows, but it doesn't support svn:// protocol by default, only HTTP or ...
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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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I cannot checkout from my SVN repo with the following configuration on Ubuntu: svnserve.conf: [general] anon-access = none auth-access = write password-db = passwd authz-db = authz [sasl] authz ...
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The aim is to set up subversion with both svnserve and apache/webdav access. When users commit via http/apache, files are written to the filesystem and belong to apache user. When users commit via ...
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I'm running svnserve on a Fedora 17 machine with the following systemd service file: [Unit] Description=Subversion Server After=syslog.target network.target [Service] User=svn Type=forking ...
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I'm running svnserve on a server, but I can only access it with the svn+ssh protocol, not svn. (This appears to present a problem when I try to checkout from it with Capistrano.) Can anyone point out ...
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I've got a Fedora server running Subversion and svnserve on port 3690. My repo is at /var/svn/project_name. I have my router forwarding port 3690 to the local server (as well as port 80, 21, 22 and a ...
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I'm trying to install subversion 1.7.5 as a service on a Win Server 2008 R2 VM. Here's what I'm feeding to sc create: sc create subversion binpath= "c:\Subversion\svnserve.exe --service –r c:\...
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I've installed svnserve in linux box konrad. On konrad I can checkout from svn: steve@konrad:~$ svn co svn://konrad A konrad/build.xml On my local Windows pc i can ping konrad, but checkout doesn ...
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I have a subversion server wich severals repositories wich are accessible via https/webdav. We need to allow svn+ssh access too on the same repositories. Is this a problem to have both access from ...
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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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We had a working svn server for the last months. The connection is done via svn+ssh via a VPN. Since some days, everyone working within the network is able to do every svn action, while some(!) ...
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When deploying my Subversion server, I don't like creating a system account for each user so I was thinking of another authentication method. I would like to use only one system account with SSH and ...
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I fear that simple service restart may cause data corruption. Does anyone know if it is safe to simply restart the svnserve Windows service? If not, then how to restart it?
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I am investigating the options for upgrading a Subversion 1.4 server to 1.6. I have been told by colleagues here that in an ideal world we should be moving towards using PAM to authenticate the ...
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I'm using subversion, how to do this: import files under /target but excluding those under /target/download1 and /target/download2 Anyone can provide a demo?
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I have a svnsync command running and it is displaying output like: ... Committed revision 39. Copied properties for revision 39. Committed revision 40. Copied properties for revision 40. Committed ...
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I'm running on osx server with svnserve installed, i'd like to create a centralized file for authentication between multiple project. Use the system user is allowed but is not mandatory....what's the ...
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I have a small LAN at home connecting 2 computers with an switch and the switch to ADSL router. Small "server" running Ubuntu Server 10.04 LTS and client running Windows XP. The server runs: ...
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We've been experiencing some problems with our Subversion server after upgrading to Ubuntu 10.04. When trying to access a repository, regardless of client (I've tried git-svn and svn on Windows as ...
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I have installed Subversion onto my iMac running Snow Leopard, but am having trouble getting svnserve to start up automatically. As I understand it (I'm still fairly green with OSX), the best way to ...
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we have SVN configured using a custom tunnel. Every time I commit, svnserve is started on a remote Linux machine. Thus it is possible to have several svnserves running simultaneously accessing the ...
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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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I want to clear all all previous revisions and leave only the current revision. Is there a way to do this? I don't find a possible command to do this: [secret@vps303 ~]# svnadmin --help general ...
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We've two nodes running heartbeat/drbd, and one of the services we're using is subversion. What I want to know is: is it safe to run svnserve on both nodes all the time, or should it only run on the ...
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What would be the best solution considering, scalability/load and security, svnserve + xinetd or standalone svnserver? Thank you!
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I just set up an SVN server (on a Windows XP machine) for my lab at my university. Right now, anyone can access and commit to the repository anonymously. I want to allow only certain users on our AD ...
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I have reciently started at a new place, currently wanting to use svn for source code. On the main server we currently have svn installed with several possible svn configs. I am wondering how to find ...