Hi There, I have installed TortoiseSVN on machine 192.168.1.56, & want to synchronise with it from 192.168.1.60, when i insert the repository address in URL like this "file:///192.168.1.56/D:/Repository" and click finish, i get the message "Location information has been specified incorrectly" what is the proper format...Thanks inadvance
A:
Have you installed TortoiseSVN or a Subversion server? For the svn client TortoiseSVN you need a server. In your case I would recommend to use a svn server with a graphical user interface for Windows: http://www.visualsvn.com/server/
A valid URL may look like this svn://192.168.1.56/repository. The repository has to be created on the server.
splash
2010-09-03 12:49:40
Hi there, cant that machine be any system on the LAN, instead of being server.
Jitendra
2010-09-04 04:42:28
Yes, of course. "Server" means "server software", which you can install anywhere where it is accessable from your client, also on the same machine.
splash
2010-09-04 11:21:20
A:
Actually TortoiseSVN recommends not to do that as you can read here:
If you were thinking about setting up a multi-user repository on a network share, think again. Read the section called "Accessing a Repository on a Network Share” to find out why we think this is a bad idea. Setting up a server is not as hard as it sounds, and will give you better reliability and probably speed too.
I recommend you to set-up svnserve and you can check how to do it in this TortoiseSVN step-by-step tutorial to achieve it. Otherwise you will need to install and set-up WebDAV (e.g. libapache2-svn) in a capable web server (e.g. apache2).
Alexander
2010-09-03 13:03:46