Scott: /* Setting up a svnserve Server */

2011-02-04T18:41:15Z

Setting up a svnserve Server

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== References ==
http://subversion.tigris.org/

http://svnbook.red-bean.com/

Also this book on Safari: '''Subversion Version Control: Using The Subversion Version Control System in Development Projects''' By William Nagel

== Setting up Subversion ==
Create a repository:
<pre>
svnadmin create /data/svn
or
svnadmin create --fs-type fsfs /path/to/repository
</pre>

Import a directory to the repository:
<pre>
cd /usr/local/pkg
svn import --message "Initial import" analyze file:///data/svn/analyze
</pre>

== Setting up an svnserve Server ==
* Create a svn system user
<pre>
useradd -r -c "subversion privilege-separation user" svn
</pre>

* Create a repository directory and give to to the svn user:
<pre>
mkdir /u1/svn
chmod 700 /u1/svn
svnadmin create /u1/svn/erp
chown -R svn.svn /u1/svn
</pre>

* Set up repository access control. In <code>repository/conf/svnserve.conf</code>:
<pre>
[general]
anon-access = none
password-db = passwd
realm = ERP
</pre>

* Create user/password pairs in <code>repository/passwd</code>:
<pre>
[users]
barney = pw4BfranK
</pre>

* Hide passwd file from others:
<pre>
chmod go-r passwd
</pre>

* Add these lines to <code>/etc/services</code>:
<pre>
svn 3690/tcp # Subversion
svn 3690/udp # Subversion
</pre>

* Create file <code>/etc/xinetd.d/svn</code>:
<pre>
# default: on
# Subversion server

service svn
{
socket_type = stream
protocol = tcp
user = svn
wait = no
disable = no
server = /usr/local/bin/svnserve
server_args = -i -r /u1/svn
port = 3690
}
</pre>

* Restart xinetd:
<pre>
/etc/init.d/xinetd restart
</pre>

* Verify that svn is listening:
<pre>
netstat -anp | grep LISTEN | grep 3690
</pre>

* Make sure that users can get to port 3690 through the firewall.

== Administration ==
Show pending transactions for the erp repository which happens to be in the current directory:
<pre>
svnadmin lstxns erp
</pre>

Find out more about a particular transaction:
<pre>
svnlook info erp --transaction 8-1
</pre>

== Using the svn command ==
Check out a project:
<pre>
svn checkout file:///data/svn/analyze
</pre>
(This creates a local copy of the <code>analyze</code> directory)

Check out a project and give the local copy a different name:
<pre>
svn checkout file:///data/svn/analyze local_analyze
</pre>

Check out part of a project:
<pre>
svn checkout file:///data/svn/analyze/src/pfile_header
</pre>

Add a file or directory to the project:
<pre>
svn add pfileheader
</pre>

Remove a file or directory from the project:
<pre>
svn delete pfileheader
</pre>

Check status of the project:
<pre>
svn status
</pre>

See logs for a file
<pre>
svn log pfile_header.c
</pre>

Update the local project from the repository:
<pre>
svn update
</pre>

Commit changes:
<pre>
svn commit --message "made a change"
</pre>

If you made changes to a file or directory but want to abandon them:
<pre>
svn revert pfile_header.c
</pre>

To revert to an earlier revision:
<pre>
svn revert --revision 34 pfile_header.c
</pre>

To copy/move a file:
<pre>
svn copy pfile_header.c pfile_header.c.orig
svn move release_notes.txt change_log.txt
</pre>

To undelete a file from an earlier revision:
<pre>
svn copy --revision 34 pfile_header.c pfile_header.c.orig
</pre>

To get detailed info about a file:
<pre>
svn info pfile_header.c
</pre>

See changes between current copy and repository copy of a file:
<pre>
svn diff pfile_header.c
</pre>

See changes between two specific revisions of a file:
<pre>
svn diff --revision 3:4 pfile_header.c
</pre>

See who is responsible for each line of a text file:
<pre>
svn blame pfile_header.c
</pre>

See what's in a particular directory of the repository without checking it out:
<pre>
svn list file:///data/svn/analyze/src/pfile_header
</pre>

Read a particular file from the repository without checking it out:
<pre>
svn cat file:///data/svn/analyze/src/pfile_header/pfile_header.c | more
</pre>

== Troubleshooting ==
<pre>
svn list file:///u1/svn/mri
svn: Unable to open an ra_local session to URL
svn: Unable to open repository 'file:///u1/svn/mri'
svn: Can't open file '/u1/svn/mri/format': Permission denied
</pre>

This doesn't seem to work from the svn server, but it does work from a remote machine.

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