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I am setting up a svn server where I have more than one SVN repository paths like /var/data/svnrepos1/forclient1 and /var/data/svnrepos2/forclient2. The SVN is installed in a custom path /usr/install/svn1.8/bin/{svnadmin,svnserve,svn,etc}.

I am try running the svnserve program using commandline like below. The command issued at command prompt is /usr/install/svn1.8/bin/svnserve -d -r /var/data/svnrepos/forclient1 -r /var/data/svnrepos2/forclient2 But SVN program is serving for just second path /var/data/svnrepos2/forclient2 only. The repos could not be accessible under /var/data/svnrepos1/forclient1. I have checked by running the daemon like { -r path2 -r path1}. In this case working for path1.` Any idea how multiple paths can be set by svn program.

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You can:

  • Move repositories to common parent (/var/data/svnrepos f.e) and have repos forclient1 and forclient2 served by single instance (just configure ACLs for different repos properly)
  • Run two instances of svnserve on different ports with single unique root in each
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  • I agree that moving to common parent would serve this purpose. What I believe is SVN will read immediate directory/repositories under path marked in flag "-r". However, I can not move the repos to common parent. We do not want to move to one parent since two are completely different type of repo code except these repositories are created with SVN 1.8 version. There should be trick but I do not know that. – intechops6 Sep 02 '15 at 15:42
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    @arunp - no, it's not as Apache's `SVNParentPath` style. You can have root at *any level* above repo - it will change only full URL of repository. And you **can** have -r /var/data/ – Lazy Badger Sep 02 '15 at 18:28
  • Yeah Badger ~ the repo is working with full URL of repository. Is that possible to run the svnserve with multiple paths using "-r" options. So that parent directory of repo path is not required in the URL. [svn://servername/svnrepos/repository ] I feel parent directory where the repository is residing should be hidden from users. – intechops6 Sep 03 '15 at 06:34
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    @arunp - no, you can not have more than one `-r` instance per daemon. I.e. you have to use only p.2 – Lazy Badger Sep 03 '15 at 09:37