Subversion on laptop and moving between internal/external network

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Subversion on laptop and moving between internal/external network

I have a subversion server on my local network and access it using the 192.168.1.x address. The problem is that when I leave my house and need to update svn on my laptop, I now have to use an external address. I've been using the svn relocate command to switch between external and internal addresses, but this is cumbersome. Does anyone have a clever trick around this issue? I use TortoiseSVN as my client.

A DNS entry on my router would probably work so I could use the external name all the time, but unfortunately my router it isn't that flexible.

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You can add a record to your hosts file, and then change that instead of relocating.

BTW, what's wrong with always using external name? (besides unnessesary traffic)

Eugene 2009-08-15 21:43:37

If you are behind a NAT and mapped the SVN server as a virtual host, external name probably won't work.

Mehrdad Afshari 2009-08-15 21:44:15

I've never been able to get that to work. Trying to use my external address from inside my network always fails. I am behind NAT. IIRC it fails because the router doesn't know what to do with the external address on a LAN->LAN connection.

sinoth 2009-08-15 21:57:04

That sounds like a router misconfiguration. It should be possible with a modern router to use your external address from inside the LAN.

Ether 2009-08-15 23:20:46

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I always use my external address, and have a bash script that sets up the ssh tunnels I want to get to my repositories. Was svn, now git, but the same principal applies.

Don Branson 2009-08-15 23:27:06

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