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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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How to set max file size for commits in subversion

Hallo, is it possible to limit the file size for commits in subversion server? Some guys upload large swf files in the subversion repository. I would like to limit the file size to 30 MB. Thanks Igor
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Confused about setting up subversion

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 very simple, and seems it's not necessary to create…
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How to migrate part of an SVN repository?

How do you migrate a part of an SVN repository into a new repository? To migrate the contents of a complete SVN repository into a new repository, one has to dump the old repository first: svnadmin dump /path/to/repository > repository-name.dmp and…
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Subversion - Retrieval of mergeinfo unsupported

I've recently updated my Subversion package on Debian Etch to 1.5.1 via a back-port. I've gone through what I believe are all the appropriate steps but cannot for the life of me get past the following error message when I try to merge: Retrieval of…
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Optimal SVN server configuration for personal use

I have a desktop machine that is currently set up as an SVN server. Currently I have it set up to be accessible via http (using Apache), but only for the local network, as I wasn't confident in my handling of the security issues involved in opening…
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SVN limitations - Number of users and repositories?

I would like to know if SVN has a specified limitations of how many users and repositories it can sustain? Thank you.
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Version Control and Backup, which combination?

I'm a sole developer and I have 3 computers. Plus a friend of mine has an account, but never uses it. My current setup is GIT + my own ad hoc backup job that clones the repository, zips it, gnupg it, and send it to a remote ftp. This has worked…
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Trac + SVN: Why post commit hook doesn't work?

I want to use the standard Trac post-commit-hook for SVN. I'm using Trac 0.11.4 and have downloaded this hook from their site. I've put it into /usr/local/bin/ and chmod +x'ed it. The post-commit hook in /var/svn/myrepo/hooks/ looks just as Trac…
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How can I get Subversion to respect the SGID bit?

On an Ubuntu server, I have a directory containing Subversion versioned files. I have used chgrp bb * to set the group owner. I have also set the directory's SGID bit with chmod g+s mydir so that new files are created with this group: drwsr-sr-x 4…
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How to fix 'Repository moved permanently to'? using VisualSVN / Subversion

I'm using Visual SVN on a server. Fresh install. Create a new repository. Try to connect using a client it comes up with "Repository moved permanently to 'https://x.x.x.x:6443/'; please relocate" I got a feeling it has to do with the IP address…
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How can I configure Apache to redirect a subdirectory to a subversion repo?

I have an old subversion repository that was set up as the only repo on a machine. We accessed the URLs like this: http://myserver.com/svn/trunk/... http://myserver.com/svn/branches/... We're moving to a new server where we have several…
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Combining multiple Subversion projects into one project

A few weeks ago we migrated from CVS to Subversion. I choosed to create each project or folder (whatever they are called in CVS) as a seperate project in Subversion and ended up with the recommended structure: [svn_path]/Server/ -- ProjectA/ …
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Submin password reset without e-mail sending

I have installed Submin. Manual says that I should recover my password at the first login. It should be ok, submin will send my new password by e-amil, but e-mail sending is disabled on server. How can I get a new password without e-mail sending in…
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Installing and setting up SVN on FreeBSD Server

Firstly thank you to everyone who responded to my earlier question - https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1393827/setting-up-svn-web-based-services-vs-your-own-svn-server As much as I would prefer to use a web based solution, the svn server is to be…
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Manage config files using hardlinks and subversion?

I'm considering hardlinking config files into a working copy of my SVN config repository. Is there any reason why not to manage config files this way? Assume /home/user/confmgr/confs is a working copy of my config repository. Then I could hardlink…
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