Annoying. If, like me, you’re suddenly seeing this (despite assurances that it’s been fixed), I have two recommendations:
SmartSVN is a Java-based free and “pro” drop-in replacement for Tortoise. Unlike other SVN clients, you can use it exactly as you were using TortoiseSVN. Possibly not as feature-rich, but considerably more polished than our favorite old Testudine. Runs everywhere. And it works over svn+ssh.
If you have a repository containing SSI-embedded files and you are using XBitHack, you will definitely want to do this:
$ svn propset svn:executable on *.html
Subversion will now preserve the executable bit.
Now if only there was a way to preserve ownership as well.
This blog is turning into an elaborate mnemonic device. This time, some more Subversion stuff I can never remember how to do.
To get a clean checkout (sans the .svn directories) of a trunk, branch, or tag from your repository, use the following:
$ svn export svn://server.com/repo/branch/name
Simple. Use the -r parameter to indicate a specific revision.
More notes to self.
Fancy shmancy init scripts aside, this is the fastest way to get a Subversion server up and running:
/usr/bin/svnserve --daemon --root /var/svn
root is the directory housing one’s repositories; looks something like this:
/var/svn/
conf/
project1/
project2/
repos/
Make sure the svn port 3690 is open.
This is one of those things I have to do once every so often and that I can never freaking remember how to do.
# svnadmin create /path/to/repositoryname
$ svn import /tmp/project svn://url.com/repositoryname -m "initial freaking import"
$ svn checkout svn://url.com/repositoryname
That’s it! See the Quick Start in the online book if you need to mess around with branches and tags and the like.