svn - A centralized version control system.
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Good introduction to Subversion for inexperienced users?
Can you suggest a good introduction to Subversion for UNIX (or Mac OS X) users? It can assume familiarity with basic command-line usage, but not any advanced topics (with bash scripting counting as ...
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passwordless ssh for another username?
I want to do a passwordless ssh connection for a subversion project. Right now I'm using ssh+svn, and it's a little annoying, because I have to type the password any time I want to transact with the ...
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How to use the SVN CLI effectively
How can I make myself more productive with the SVN CLI? I need to complete repetitive tasks like these:
find modified files in directory
commit only SOME of them
selecting them somehow other then ...
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Which GUI svn client allows searching through history?
I'm looking for GUI tool that allows searching svn history, and more than just log messages.
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Subversion: how to determine when files became corrupt
I'm using Subversion just for private synchronization between a laptop and a desktop. Recently I discovered that several ASCII files and several binary files were corrupted. Instead of the expected ...
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Need to upgrade svn on centos
I have an error when I run svn up
svn this client is too old to work with working copy...please get a newer subversion client
This is on centos. I need to update svn. How do I do this?
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Recursively Remove SVN files
I'm still learning the bash shell.
I want to recursively find and remove svn files within the child directories of a given folder. I made the mistake of checking out instead of just cloning. So i'm ...
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How to output file & ignoring lines that start with “?”?
I do svn status --show-updates and then I want to either
Q1:
ignore (not to display) lines that start with ?
Q2:
display only lines that start with * Note that there are few spaces before * occurs. ...
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How to configure SVN/SSH with SSH on non standard port?
I have configured SSH to be on port 20000. When I try:
svn co svn+ssh://server.com:20000/home/svn/proj1 proj1 --username jm
I get
svn: To better debug SSH connection problems, remove the -q ...
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Disable svn plaintext password storage for all users
By default, Subversion allows users to save their password in plaintext in ~/.subversion/auth/svn.simple. I'm investigating options for storing encrypted passwords in svn, but at the very least and ...
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SVN access and indexing tool
I have a huge SVN repository where several developers make ~100 commits per day. The repository has a size of almost 4GB and each update requires me to wait for 30-60seconds.
However, I do not do ...
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shell scripts that respond to console output
Disclaimer:: I am not an active shell scripter
How does one create a script that responds to console output? For instance, I'm trying to setup a cron that periodically svnsync 's changes to my ...
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svn switch --relocate: wrong uuid?
I am trying to switch to a new SVN repository.
I currently have the following checkout:
$ svn info
svn+ssh://some.server.edu/home/name/svn-repositories/proj/trunk
Now I wanted to switch, but I get ...
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Why does Subversion give a broken pipe error when piped into head?
If I do a
svn log | head
after the tenth line of output I get an error message:
svn: Write error: Broken pipe
What's going on here? I haven't seen any other command do this when used with head. ...
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Ignore files for zsh's completion for SVN
I managed to configure zsh such that it does not suggest LaTeX temporary files when I use autocompletion for emacs by adding this line to my ~/.zshrc:
zstyle ':completion:*:*:emacs:*:*files' ...
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Apply astyle on commited files using SVN hooks
I would like to apply some styling to code whenever someone commits to an SVN repository, for this I use astyle on the commited changes with an svn pre-commit hook.
I can get the file names like ...
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Setting SVN permissions with davsvnauthz
There seems to be a path inheritance issue which is boggling me over access restrictions.
For instance, if I grant rw access one group/user, and wish to restrict it some /../../secret to none, it ...
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How to make svn look for if there is an update once a minute and if there is call some script?
I am developing a server app. I have a remote machine with Debian that I use for testing. Currently I update the server manually when each new svn version comes out. It is just a testing server and ...
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How does a package run without all the dependencies being installed on the target system?
I am trying to build the latest version of subversion on ubuntu 12.10 and was having some trouble completing ./configure as I seemed to be getting a never ending stream of configure: error: x not ...
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How do I add a user in SVN?
UPDATE #3:
I think I found it.
/etc/httpd/conf.d/subversion.conf
<Location /repos>
DAV svn
SVNPath /var/www/svn/repos
AuthType Basic
AuthName "Subversion repos"
...
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Rsync except .svn folders and their sub-contents?
Dealing with a subversion repo and a new user that didn't quite understand how it worked.
Long story short, since their local structure was messed up due to copying random .svn folders about, I did ...
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Subversion on Ubuntu server - setup issues
I have followed a guide for setting up a Subversion server and I cannot seem to access any repositories that I have created and imported from a Windows based SVN repository.
In the past, I installed ...
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subversion 1.6 file svn:externals help
Can someone please point out how I could do svn:externals for a single file?
I know how to use svn:externals for directories, having used it for a while now under svn 1.4 but I can't seem to figure ...
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Weird autocomplete behaviour in ZSH / oh-my-zsh for directories that don't exist
UPDATE 3 I've worked out that these annoying autocomplete options are actually usernames. I.e. they exist in /etc/passwd I have users such as _kadmin_admin and _kadmin_changepw and many others ...
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How to checkout Tomcat by SVN?
I try:
svn co http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/tomcat/tc7.0.x/trunk/
But received error:
svn: E170000: Unrecognized URL scheme for
'http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/tomcat/tc7.0.x/trunk'
Is it ...
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How to assign correct permissions to both webserver and svn?
I've an issue with files ownerships in unix.
I have a drupal website and the "files" folder needs to be owned by "www-data" in order to let the users to upload files with php.
However I'm now using ...
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pysvn fails to make due to -lneon not found?
I am trying to install pysvn on my CentOS server and it says that -lneon is gone.
After searching their mailing lists for a bit I found what neon means but it doesn't say how can I get it?
Here's my ...
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How to set-up a online SVN server on my laptop
I had created a local SVN server on my laptop running Ubuntu 12.04 and its working perfectly fine. Now I want to make my laptop as server for some valid users who can access my SVN server though ...
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svn checkout shows only one file
anisha@linux-y3pi:~/Desktop/mysvn> svn list https://earthhtml.googlecode.com/svn/
branches/
manual.cpp
ogmap.html
svn-book.pdf
tags/
trunk/
wiki/
But, this downloads only one file:
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How to make apr available for subversion install?
I try to install subversion from source, but on ./configure receive:
configure: error: no suitable apr found
I have download apr source and installed:
libraries have been installed in:
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svn command to see a tally of my changes
Is there an SVN command that I can run to see a tally of all of my contributions? Something like:
added 1800
deleted 15
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How to install subversion 1.6.x on SLE11?
I need specific version of subversion 1.6.x on my SLE11 (SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 (x86_64)) but I do not know how to install it.
If I follow the instructions on ...
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Binding a particular IP to a port in apache2
In How to set-up a online SVN server on my laptop I asked to give access to my SVN server installed on my laptop to some of my friends siting in another part of country.I set-up a SVN server.I was ...
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How can I test whether the output from a command is null or empty string? [closed]
I'm trying to get a pre-commit hook script to work on our old SVN box.
It's very old, running Ubuntu Server 8.04.
This script:
@echo off
::
:: Stops commits that have empty log messages.
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SVN checkout under a different user name
When I ssh into my server I log in under root or my user on the system.
However, when I checkout from my svn repos then are then owned by either root or my user, and therefore all files deployed to ...
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svn and webserver files ownerships
I've an issue with files ownerships.
I have a drupal website and the "files" folder needs to be owned by "www-data" in order to let the users to upload files with php.
However I'm now using svn and ...
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How to 'ls' current directory (which is under svn) files info (path)?
How can I sort of list current directory contents (including sub-directories recursively) (which is under svn) files info (path relative to current dir)?
I want this to get log in format like:
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How can I list subversion's runtime configuration options?
Say I want to know the value of the global-ignores option. How can I find it out?
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SVN changelist all my checkouts
Lets say I have 100+ files that I've checked out. Is there a way I can add all of them to a changelist without specifying them one by one, or adding them to file?
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How to build a python egg for a TRAC plugin?
I'd like to install a mercurial plugin for Trac. The manual provides an svn path with the source code. I need to create an "egg" from that source code. Do I need to have SVN installed in order to do ...
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SVN wants to commit everything after server re-install
the motherboard of a dedicated server I'm renting since five years went south and the motherboard got replaced by a new one. The very old (Debian) distro couldn't keep up with all the new hardware on ...
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how to install older version of subversion in linux mint
With linux mint, when I install subversion the .svn metadata folders are not compatible with 1.6.18 of Eclipse subversion plugin (subclipse). I assume the plugin can only process 1.6 compliant ...
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Git-SVN Not Allowing Me to Authenticate
Git 1.7.9.1 on Arch Linux:
git svn init -s https://app.svn.beanstalk.com/repo
Initialized empty Git repository in /path/to/repo/.git/
Authentication realm: ...
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How do I enable a new repository in CentOS?
I need to upgrade my version of subversion however, simply running yum update subversion tells me:
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror Loading
mirror speeds from cached hostfile *
addons: ...
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svn backup bash script errors
I have created bash script for create dump of svn repositories. I want to add such functionality that after dump of every repository script send it to remote server using rsync and delete from dump ...
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Problem accessing an Apache-hosted folder
I'm running Centos 6.2, and Apache. I'm running into an error to do with access rights/permissions when trying to navigate to a webpage. I'm trying to go to the URL http://localhost/repos, but I get ...
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“svn update” doesn't show my updated files
Usually when I do an svn update, if files have changed, it will list those files along with the code changes. However, on my current machine, it only shows the files changed by other people, but it ...
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Couldn't perform atomic initialization SQLite error with Subversion on Eclipse
I'm trying to check out some code from my company's svn repository and I get this message on the console:
checkout https://svn.[company]/[repo]/Trunk/[project] -r HEAD \
--depth=infinity --force
...
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SVN error message: “E200030: sqlite: database disk image is malformed” on checkout
The .svn folder doesn't exist yet. I tried deleting it after it was created, but I get the same issue again
@:/var/www/htdocs$ svn checkout https://host/svn/trunk/ .
svn: E200030: sqlite: database ...
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How to build svnwcrev
I'm having a bad time building svnwcrew, and as the readme file says: "There is no sophisticated installation procedure for this small utility."...
I modified the config.mk file setting the ...
