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The acronym SVN stands for Subversion, a very common and popular Version Control System.

The acronym SVN stands for Subversion, a very common and popular Version Control System.

The subversion book is an excellent reference, source it in your SVN answers! Please link to the latest stable release of the book. Links to the nightly build will eventually break when sections in the book are reorganized.

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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. What are the challenges that must be overcome to…
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SVN info shows old Revision # as the Current Revision

I have an SVN repo. When I recently committed a change, the reflected current revision # is 620: Transmitting file data ... Committed revision 620. However, if I then runsvn info I get the following: Path: . URL:…
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Search for large checkins in a subversion repository

In the past people have checked in massive files to our subversion repository and later regretted it. To fix it, they just deleted the directory and made another checkin (leaving the massive files in the repository's history). Since these massive…
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Subversion - Can I set auto-props on the server side?

I'm maintaining a SVN server and on user needs to commit many adobe illustrator files (ie *.ai). I can use the auto-props in their config to set it as a binary file so that it won't be in the mailing list commits. However I'd like to make this as…
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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…
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svn won't accept my invalid certificate

I have a server running apache with a self-signed certificate (the server) with subversion hooked in It requires a username to checkout or update from the repo. I have a checkout from the repo that I am trying to update on a cron job on two…
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How can I ignore files/directories when building debian packages?

I have made some debian packages to ease deployment of configurations on new servers and want to put them in SVN source control. The problem is that SVN creates a .svn directory for each subdirectory in the source tree, so I can't build packages on…
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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 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 not with mod_nss. For mod_nss the configuration I…
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SVN Connector installation is broken in Eclipse Oxygen

I installed subversive 4.0.5 and when connector installation screen pops up I select SVN Kit 1.8.14 from the list. All I get after that is a blink of some window and that's it. After I restart my Eclipse it prompts me to install the connector again…
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Moving a folder in SVN

This is on Win2k3sp2, using TortoiseSVN 1.6.5 and SlikSVN 1.6.3. I have a folder in a repo, call it /a/b, which I want to become /a/c/d in the same repo. I have tried just moving the folder and renaming it, and then committing, and apparently it…
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Get Latest Tag From Subversion

Is there a way to determine the newest tag in subversion? For an application I've deployed the client needs to have another server that they can access in case the live server goes down. There is already an automated system to copy the database to…
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Sending Subversion logs to Logstash

My requirement is to send subversion logs(i.e username,revision number...) to logstash for parsing(then store it in elastic search and finally displayed it via kibana).Since subversion use its own file-based database(FSFS) and not plain text file,I…
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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 However when I examine it, the trunk branches and tags…
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Subversion Edge LDAP (require CAC Certificate not Username and Password)

What I've Done: I've successfully installed and configured Subversion Edge 3.1.2 with LDAP support on a Windows 2008 server. I have configured LDAP users and am able to use LDAP credentials to work on repositories just fine. No issues whatsoever.…
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