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Why can not add subversion package to my OpenBSD 4.5 machine?

Hi all, I have an OpenBSD 4.5 on a virtual machine. I configured the net and my machine can connect to the OpenBSD FTP repository in Canada (ftp.openbsd.org) correctly. But when I execute this line: *pkg_add -v subversion-1.5.5* Occurs this error: Unknown element: @sha FTlY/mreDMe9nRNLR5+fSIIZWMnivjO0p83rQLSL6F0= in SCALAR(0x7...

Branching code for different platforms in SVN

Note: my code is written in flash but this is a SVN-related issue and is not a flash-specific. I have a code library targeted at Flash Player 9 stored in an SVN repository. I want to create a modified version of the code targeted at Flash Player 10. What are the best practices for maintaining both versions of the code? Should I create ...

How can I move my local Tortoise SVN repository to our new Linux SVN server?

I've been using Tortoise SVN (and VisualSVN) with a local repository on my desktop PC for a couple of months. We've just set up a Linux SVN server, and I want to move my repository to this server, preserving all my history. Once it's moved, I'll stop using the local repository. The Tortoise docs suggest using the "Relocate..." command...

Cannot write a script to "svn export" in Python.

Hi, I would like to write a script that will tell another server to SVN export a SVN repository. This is my python script: import os # svn export to crawlers for s in ['work1.main','work2.main']: cmd = 'ssh %s "cd /home/zes/ ; svn --force export svn+ssh://174.113.224.177/home/svn/dragon-repos"' % s print cmd os.system(cmd)...

git svn clone result cannot be cloned

I've got several Subversion repositories for which I'm the only committer. Based on Paul Dowman's excellent instructions, I did the following: $ git svn clone https://localhost/svn/settings --no-metadata -Aauthors.txt Initialized empty Git repository in .git/ ... r1000 = 8655353158ef2e7be84c0115b16a14d327e9e842 (git-svn) Running git rep...

How To Handle Re-Created Directories In A Subversion Working Copy?

Scenario: a User deletes a directory from a SVN Working Copy and afterwards she creates a new directory in the WC at the same location and using the same name. So, before we had a directory including svn information and now we have a directory with the same name w/o svn information. Can subversion handle this? How? Thanks in advance ...

How do I avoid Complicated Merges in Subversion?

I'm new to Subversion (SVN) coming from a Visual Source Safe (VSS) background. In VSS the person editing a file checks the file out and it locks the other users from editing it through Visual Studio. I understand that SVN is a concurrent model allowing multiple people to work on the same file and later merge the changes together. My q...

Better way to share header file between separate vc project?

How would you organize your vc projects source code to share the same header file? put the header in a common folder, and have every vc projects include it. put the header in a vc project, and have the other projects include it as a link. copy the header file into every vc project any better solution? ...

Can I see the svn branch history after I delete a branch?

Hi, I want to delete a svn branch to make sure people (and I!) don't work on a archived branch by mistake (we have already merged the branch into the trunk). However I don't want to loose the branch's history and would idealy still want to be able to see the branch in tortoise svn's graph. Can I have the best of both world (cleaned up ...

can't commit to svn because working copy is always out of date

I'm trying to commit some work, but svn always fails and tells me that a file I modified is out of date. I tried updating first, that doesn't work. Cleanup doesn't work. If I revert the file, copy my changes over and try that, it still fails. It isn't just a particular file either, if I revert the whole thing back to a previous revision,...

diff/merge tool for TortoiseSVN within Visual Studio

Hi. We've recently "upgraded" from Visual SourceSafe to SVN based on recommendations on this site. Our current source control set-up is: TortoiseSVN with VisualSVN. We're very happy with it so far, but I was wondering if there's any additional benefits from using a different diff/merge tool than the one included (TortoiseMerge). Tortois...

Could not initilize the SASL library

Following the tutorial here, I installed Subversion 1.5.6 (Setup-Subversion-1.5.6.msi here) on Windows Server 2003 SP2. I was able to create a repository (C:\SVN\Repository) using the command line, no problem. And I can configure it as a service, but when I try to start the service, it won't start. I figured I would try to run svnserve m...

Subversion deployment workflow for webdevelopment

Hello everyone, Im still learning the basics of subversion but since the beginning i had a goal to achieve with this cvs: automating the site deployment process. Is there any solution to automate the process of site updates to the webserver? Thanks! ...

How do I avoid checking in local changes to the SVN repository?

I have to make local changes to my project files in order to get it to run in a different environment. Twice now I accidentally checked those changes in (and messed up everyone else's running environment). There are probably a lot of better ways to set up our build, but since I work as a consultant on an established project I can't rea...

Best practices for Subversion and Visual Studio projects

I've recently started working on various C# projects in Visual Studio as part of a plan for a large scale system that will be used to replace our current system that's built from a cobbling-together of various programs and scripts written in C and Perl. The projects I'm now working on have reached critical mass for being committed to su...

Best open source alternative for MS Visual Source Safe?

We are leaving VSS for TFS or any other alternatives. I'm the one who persists to go for an open source alternative like SVN. Now I'm searching for a good open source Version Control regarding following aspects: We are in love with open source movement and cross-platform. Could it be possible to use it with Mono, SharpDevelop and Expre...

svnadmin create ignoring sticky group bit on directory

I am using Subversion with Apache and want a normal user (i.e. non-root) to be able to create new repositories. I thought this would be easy enough to do using a parent directory with group www-data and the group sticky bit set. Unfortunately "svnadmin create ..." leaves only its db directory with the sticky group not set. How can I get...

Migrating a svn repo to git. Multiple app in svn repo need to broken into separate git repos.

I have a svn repo with various apps as subdirectory of a single svn repo. That worked because I could have checked out a partial, repo. As I cant do that with git obviously I need multiple repos. I want to keep my commit histories in the git export. What is the simplest way to do this? ...

How do I check out a subversion repository from a network share?

I have a Subversion repository on my laptop in my room (windows Vista), but I want to check it out to a computer upstairs (Ubuntu Linux). I put the repository on a network share but I'm not sure how I can check it out to ubuntu. Note that I don't have subversion server set up on my laptop, I'm just trying todo a checkout from a network ...

Google Code email notification

I have a question with regards Google Code svn repositories. Is there a way no be notified by email when someone on your team does a commit ? I have been looking around, but I can't find the way to activate this option (if it exists). Thanks for any help given. ...