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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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SVN Checkout error on large repositories

I wonder if anyone can help me. We have recently migrated our Subversion repository from a VisualSVN Server on Windows to a subversion server on CentOS. The migration was succesfull however we are getting the following error message Error REPORT of…
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subversion - how to tell the format of an existing repository

Is there a way to tell the format of an svn repo on disk, without knowing how it was created? Possibly from the format or db/format files? This question has lots of useful info about the different contents of those files, but there's no answer to…
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Different SVN Server versions and Clients

We are going to migrate from CVS to SVN using Subversion 1.6. But also we have another SVN-Server using Subversion 1.2 (no chance to update). So we plan to use the newer TortoiseSVN 1.6.x Is it possible to use two different servers while using only…
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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 bug-submission system. I don't need the many…
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Subversion COPY/MOVE - File not found: transaction 'XXX-XX'

I'm attempting to create a branch in one of my subversion repositories and keep running into an error. No mater what is done, I keep getting the following: File not found: transaction '3062-2e6', path '/Software/XXXXXX/branches/testbranch' I've…
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SVN and WebSVN with different users access restriction on multiple repositories on linux

and first of all sorry for my english. I've installed an ubuntu server 10.04.1 with apache2, subversion, svn_dav and websvn. (and others services of course, like php5, mysql 5.1, etc). I've configured my svn with multiple repositories, and each one…
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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 is? Are there any other methods (besides the…
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WebSVN accept untrusted HTTPS certificate

I am using websvn with a remote repository. This repository uses https protocol. After having configured websvn I get on the websvn webpage: svn --non-interactive --config-dir /tmp list --xml --username '***' --password '***'…
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Use linefeed or carriage return in Subversion commit message from the command line

I am using Subversion 1.6.6 on Ubuntu 10.04, running a bash shell. I would like to insert a carriage return, or linefeed, or newline into my commit message so that when reading the log, the comments are formatted appropriately. It works fine when I…
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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 enough with svn to know if that will cause…
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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 fine. Connections to svn+ssh fail due to: bash:…
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How to dump multiple subversion repositories at once on various OSs

How do I make a dump of a number of subversion repositories - with all repositories residing in one folder - on various operating systems (Linux shells, Windows 9x/Vista/XP/Server, etc.)? I'll post an answer that works on Windows Server 2003 - but…
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How do i find out which svn config is currently used on a server?

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 out which svn config is the svn server is…
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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 use hotcopy instead. Are there any gotchas (i.e.…
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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 natural disaster, ecc.. I tried searching google for…
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