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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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Installing TortoiseSVN for specific users on Citrix XenApp

The question here is straight-forward: how do I install TortoiseSVN on Citrix XenApp so that only specific people can see/use the program, without a 2nd group of people even seeing that the program exists? Under Citrix's old MetaframeXP product,…
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Subversion - What is the purpose of txn-protorevs

I have a Subversion server and into one of the Subversion repositories, I got this directory under the db directory: txn-protorevs which contains the following files for me 119M 1-4.rev 0 1-4.rev-lock What is the purpose of this directory…
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How to limit login attempts to Subversion?

We set up a Subversion server via the Apache module mod_dav_svn and the authentification is done via LDAP. Now we would like to limit the login attempts to Subversion to prevent brute force attacks. If a user (or a bot) enters its password three…
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Is there a way to use svnsync with a repository loaded from a dump file?

I created a new repository A. Ran svnsync init with repository B as the source. Loaded a dump file from B (rev 0 to 1690 of 1801) to A. Then tried to run svnsync. My thinking was that svnsync could pick up where the dump file left off. This is the…
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How can I cache a Subversion password on a server, without storing it in unencrypted form?

My Subversion server only provides access via HTTPS; support for svn+ssh has been dropped because we wanted to avoid creating system users on that machine just for SVN access. Now I'm trying to provide a way for users to cache their passwords for a…
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SvnServe On Windows With Active Directory Authentication

Right now my company is using a network share to communicate with the SVN repository. It's really slow so I'd like to switch to SVNSERVE. The main reason my company chose to go the filesystem route was because it made it easy to secure using our…
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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 redirected to the same "user url" since the…
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proper way to install new version of software on ubuntu

The generic question is in the title. A more specific example is this: I have a server running ubuntu (actually xubuntu) v9.04. The svn (subversion) available in the repository is 1.5.x, but I want to install the newer 1.6.x. Is there a "correct"…
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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. Error Repository UUID 'XXXX...' doesn't match…
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Subversion 1.6 + SASL : Only works with plaintext 'userPassword'?

I'm attempting to setup svnserve with SASL support on my Slackware 13.1 server and after some trial and error I'm able to get it to work with the configuration listed below: svnserve.conf [general] anon-access = read auth-access = write realm =…
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How to remove empty revisions from existing svn dump file?

I have an svn dump file which includes "empty" revisions (these were created by svnsync when synching only a subdirectory of an existing repository). Since I'd like to use the svnsync'd repository as the new master (no need to sync again), I wanted…
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Should a call to SVNSYNC be blocking or not in a post-commit hook?

this is my first question here and in fact one moved from StackOverflow as I think this site will be more in sync with the topic. I've set up mirroring of my repository and it works nicely but I've had an issue recently. The target repository was…
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Subversion: Can't move... Permission Denied

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': Permission denied I checked the permissions in the…
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Samba, Apache and SVN. Getting the permissions right

I have two machines I work on: Windows Client (Development Machine) Linux Web Server (Ubuntu) On the Linux server I have installed Apache, Samba and SVN. I've created a samba share that maps to the htdocs/ directory so that I can access the web…
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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: DAV svn SVNParentPath /home/svn/repositories AuthzSVNAccessFile /home/svn/dav_svn.authz Satisfy Any Require…
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