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How do I change the default author for accessing a SVN repository?

I want to change the default SVN username to a new name. I tried solution suggested in this link (http://stackoverflow.com/questions/45624/change-default-author-in-local-svn-repo), but it is not working. I have access to SVN repository through command line and Aptana using Subversive client. ...

Version control; choices, choices, choices!

Our setup as follows: We have a local development server running Ubuntu, with a setup to mirror that of our live host. Each developer works on a Windows machine and accesses the files from the local dev server. The projects in question are a number of websites built in PHP. Seeing as there are no good reasons not to use version control...

How do I only Checkout (pull down) only parts of an SVN tree with TortoiseSVN?

I'm using TortoiseSVN and I want to do a Checkout of an existing repository into a local directory. However, I only want to pull down certain portions of the file tree. Is there a way I can do that? For instance: /trunk /project-A /project-B /project-C Let's say I just want to pull down trunk, project-A and project-B. ...

Questions on workflow for a team using a git-svn repo

I've bee reading up on git and git-svn. I'm pretty new to git but I've been able to create some basic repos. However, I'm a bit confused on how the workflow would go for git-svn being used by a team. The goal is to convert svn to git for branching and sharing purposes, then commit back to the main svn repo when ready to push to productio...

What's the right way to manage a release with SVN?

My last employer had developed an elaborate system which sat on top of SVN to deal with ongoing development: (change management) look at bugs/issues and associate them with commits when making the commit by tagging the bug id number and (release management) tag items in SVN as part of a specific release based on the bug/issue tracking sy...

Copy and Paste is making new tortoise svn projects

When I copy an svn directory for tortise the svn icons are still showing up. How can I copy the directory without the svn information being copied as well? ...

In folders that are under SVN the context menu item "properties" is removed

In folders where there is a .svn folder I cannot right click on a file and choose "properties" anymore. The context menu appears correctly, but the list ends right before where "properties" is supposed to be. When I delete the .svn folder the item returns again. I have the latest version of tortoiseSVN installed. Anyone experienced th...

Using SVN with large project

I have a large project but I need only some folders in my svn repository. Now these are the first two levels of my projects structure folder_1 subfolder_1.1 subfolder_1.2 folder_2 subfolder_2.1 subfolder_2.2 subfolder_2.3 folder_3 subfolder_3.1 subfolder_3.2 I only need folder_1 subfolder_1.1 folder...

How to handle unmergeable files in a version control system?

I am working in a model-driven environment, where Java code is generated from a MagicDraw model by AndroMDA. The models are developed iteratively, hence we would have to merge them if we create branches. But as I was told the models cannot be merged, because every time it is saved every id of every element will be replaced. But I want t...

Any latest experiences from recent daily build of AnkhSVN?

Does anyone have any experiences from recent daily build of AnkhSVN? Please let me know if it is good to go with? Secondly does it seamlessly integrate with TortoiseSVN? What I mean here is that if I checkout from within Visual Studio (with AnkhSVN plugin installed), will it be identified by Tortoise SVN that it is a changed file? or th...

svnmerge workflow

How are you using svnmerge for merging and branching in svn? ...

Using a project from source control across repositories and solutions

In one of our projects, we have a class library we use for more than one project/client and each of these solutions exist in different repositories. Currently, this class library exists in it's own repository. When we are referencing it in the client app, we compile it from one location, then copy the .dll to the other project's /libs/...

How do I migrate a newer SVN repository to an older version?

I created a local repository using tortoiseSVN a while back. Now I would like to migrate the repository to my DreamHost account. I moved the files over but it seems that DreamHost is using an older version of SVN. when I issue the command svnadmin load 'repository dir' it spits back svnadmin: Expected FS format '2'; found form...

With svn 1.6 on Mac and https repository svnmerge.py avail says "Could not authenticate to server: rejected Basic challenge"

I can checkout code from this repository and commit to it, but doing an "svnmerge.py avail" fails with the message svnmerge: command execution failed (exit code: 1) svn --non-interactive propget --strict "svnmerge-integrated" "https://svn.example.org/example/groups.example.org/trunk/sites/all/themes/bluebeach/themes/bluebeach/trunk" ...

Has anybody tried to check out mahout (SVN) from eclipse (subclipse)

Hi, I was trying to check out a copy of mahout using the subclipse. I typed in the following link to try to create a new reposistory location, but failed. Did I do something wrong? Thanks https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/lucene/mahout/trunk The error message is below "Error validating location: "org.tigris.subversion.javahl.ClentExc...

TourtoiseSVN: How to diff 2 tags?

How do I do a diff between 2 tags without checking out both tags? ...

Windows Explorer columns (in details view) for SVN in Windows 7 (with TortoiseSVN )

In Win XP, for my svn repository folders in Windows Explorer, I added an extra column called "SVN Status" (or similar). I used it to determine which files were modified, added, not versioned, etc. You can do this by switching to the details view Windows Explorer, right-clicking on the column list, and choosing "More...". After insta...

How to prevent a file from being commited/revised in subversion?

I have a file in repo which I do not want anybody to update. What can I do? ...

netbeans subversion authentication failed

Hello, Today i started getting a weird error, i couldnt access any subversion repo from my netbeans app. I keep getting authentication failed. I am using ubuntu 9.10 and netbeans 6.7.1. My credentials are ok, i can connect, update, commit using RapidSVN. thanks :) Later edit i am not behind a proxy didn't updated the working copy,...

Working locally with Git when main repository is SVN

There is an open source project I want to checkout and contribute to. The main repository is SVN but I want to work in Git. Is this possible? Most of my searches turns up guides where you move from SVN to Git (or the other way around) and dont look back. If I checkout the project, make a change and push it to the branch I created on ...