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How to fix "containing working copy admin area is missing" in SVN ?

I deleted manually a directory I just added, offline, in my repository. I can't restore the directory. Any attempt to do an update or a commit will fail with : "blabla/.svn" containing working copy admin area is missing. I understand why, but is there anyway to fix this. I don't want to checkout the entire repo and add my changes t...

How can I rebase a subversion repository using only command-line tools?

Until recently I was a read-only user of an open-source project on GoogleCode. I've been invited onto the team however I need to switch my local repository from using the http:// url to the more secure https:// url which will allow me to commit. At work TortoiseSVN for Windows has a handy "rebase" feature which will allow me to change ...

Searching svn commits

Another "this ought to be easy but I don't know how to do it" question ... We have an SVN repository with many many branches. Is there any way to ask a question like "What are all the commits I did in the last week against all branches?" or "What are all the revisions that include changes to file X across all branches?" I can do a log ...

Can I use Subversion for a multi gigabyte data set?

The data set is 97984 files in 6766 folders with 2,57 GB. A lot of them are binary files. For me this does not sound so much. The daily data change rate is in the hundreds of KB on maybe 50 files. But I'm scared that subversion will become extremely slow. It was never fast anyway and the last time at v1.2 the recommendation was split...

Has anyone managed to get groogle working on windows?

Hi, Has anyone managed to install Groogle on a Windows server? I get all sorts of problems installing the PEAR and PECL extensions that are needed, and as there are no instructions on how to do the installation it is non-trivial. ...

Replace versioned file with non-versioned file

I'm relatively new to SVN and have a rather basic question. I have several small versioned resource images for a web project. Today the designer updated one of those resources, so I should replace it. Is the only way to update this file by first svn-delete it, commit and then svn-add the new one? EDIT As mentioned in the response, I c...

svn vendor branch

In svn red book in vendor branch chapter, it is proposed to maintain a current/ containing the latest release of 3rd party product, so from the example we end up with: repos/vendor/libcomplex/current - contains 1.1 repos/vendor/libcomplex/1.0 repos/vendor/libcomplex/1.1 What is it purpose of current/? Why we need initially pu...

How to test new features without corrupting the trunk?

I create branches for each new features. Then I'm merges them into the trunk after I'll sending them on a test site.This means that the trunk is not stable. I wonder if there is a better approach. EDIT After reading the comment, I realize that I should have specified that it was a web applcation.So a website for testing each branch se...

Is there a way to view what commands are being executed by TortoiseSVN?

Is there a way to view what commands are being executed by TortoiseSVN? There are a few things that I'd like to write a hook for on check-in that I only know how to do in Tortoise. It would be helpful if I could see what commands Tortoise was executing to create my hooks. ...

What are the arguments passed to SVNs --diff3-cmd?

I have been trying to write my own diff3 wrap script for SVN and I am wondering what the various parameters that get passed to --diff3-cmd are. The closest thing I could find so far is: How can I use Beyond Compare 3 as the diff3-cmd for svn? But it doesn't quite explain what all of the parameters do. I also tried to pass it through...

Repository layout (or hook) for branching shared libraries (and keeping your sanity)

We're using subversion, (the question could be applicable to many version control systems, but subversion is the one I really care about.) Our repository layout looks like so: (Layout A) Web branches tags trunk Libraries Foo branches tags trunk Bar branches tags trunk WindowsClient branches tags trunk DB branch...

SVN with Apache security

I've set up a local SVN repo with apache https access on an ubuntu machine using this example: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/60736/how-to-setup-a-subversion-svn-server-on-gnu-linux-ubuntu Everything works great. The next step is to allow users to access SVN over the internet. This works, but here's my question: Currently it seems e...

How to read changes from SVN repo

Hey ! I'm trying to do some sort of strange Facebook App which notifies developers of changes on the SVN such as new branches and versions, however to achieve this I need to ask SVN what changes have been made and the comments of those changes,version,etc.. However all the call I found for SVN on tigris.org talk about how do I update m...

Cannot build "cyrus-sasl-2.1.23" on SUSE Linux 10.0

I downloaded the source code from "ftp://ftp.andrew.cmu.edu/pub/cyrus-mail/". Configure went well but when i build I end up with following errors: digestmd5.c:852: error: 'des_context_t' has no member named 'keysched' digestmd5.c:853: error: 'des_context_t' has no member named 'keysched2' digestmd5.c:854: error: 'des_context_t' has n...

is it possible to link SVN repository files so that a file is actually a reference to another repository's file?

I can see some potential difficulties with this concept but the idea is, I change a file in Repository A and commit, Repository B has a file that is a link to a file in Repository A, I click update on the file in my working copy for repository B, and i recieve the updated file from repository A. ...

SVN Update adds ^M when conflicts?

We've been working on some files at the same time. Occasionally, when we "svn up" we'll see files with "^M"'s appended to every line of certain files. We originally blamed each other's editors >_>. We have since narrowed it down to "svn up"ing when conflicts exist. If we isolate the conflicted file and svn no "^M"'s appear. No "^M...

Is it possible to encrypt the content stored in SVN?

If I am storing my source code in SVN on a shared hosting company, would it be possible to encrypt the content so EVEN if someone does have access to the repo they can't see the source in plain view? Is there a plugin for this? Otherwise I'd imagine it would be crazy implementing this oneself! ...

How to backup and restore all the source code in svn?

Right now I am using Windows XP. If i just copy the whole repository folder in visual SVN, once the server is down, how can i restore it via the backuped repository folder? another better solution to backup and restore in visual svn ? by the way, any method for backup and restore in visual source control? ...

Version Control for Homework Assignments

School is back in session and I've found myself at a loss. At the end of last semester, we had a group project utilizing subversion (group of 4 people) to make commits and get it complete. I also noticed how easy it was to have access to a central point for my homework. I want to utilize SVN or Git (recently introduced to git) and I h...

Defining boundaries in terms of repositories

I'll set the scene first... We use Subversion and currently have a reasonably large Main repository. I'm looking to break it down though, with the possibility of moving to Git at a later date. The reason being is that a) Git can't do subfolder checkouts so favours smaller repo's, b) we can use branching a lot more (branch per feature). ...