I've been reading up on branching/merging with Subversion 1.5 using the excellent and free Version Control with Subversion book. I think that I understand how to use the Subversion command line client to perform the actions that I need most often, which are: Update Branch with Changes from Trunk From the branch's working directory run...
I searched and found this question but did not like the answer. Is there another way to get SVN to ignore config files that are checked in in-place (that you cannot check-in changed), but must be modified on your system. This is a pretty severe failure of SVN, my first disappointment with the system actually. What I'm hoping for is th...
I'm investigating using hosted subversion for a new project at work and was wondering if anyone had any experiences they would share. I've personally used Beanstalk for small projects at home, but not with mulitple users or a large repository. What/who have you used? For what size/type of project? What was your experience? (Uptime, p...
For a deleted file what's the command to use to view the content of a old revision E:\Downloads\eeli\eel\eel>svn cat eel-scalable-font.h -r 2 svn: warning: 'eel-scalable-font.h' is not under version control ...
How can I prune old revisions from my development subversion repository? I keep a subversion sandbox in which I have lots of test projects, binaries, etc. I'd like to prune the history occasionally. ...
Is there a way to edit the commit message of a certain revision in Subversion? I accidentally wrote a wrong filename in my commit message which could be confusing later. I've seen How do I edit an incorrect commit message in git but the solution to that doesn't seem to be similar for Subversion (according to svn help commit). ...
I come from a CVS background. I'm currently investigating using SVN for a project. The code that I work on tends to be in the following directory structure. project\libs\lib1 project\libs\lib1\test project\libs\lib1\mock project\libs\lib2 etc. When I tag a release, in CVS, I tend to create two tags one being "projec...
I have a folder checked out using TortoiseSVN. If I copy a newer version of a file over the existing versioned file, TortoiseSVN correctly identifies that the file is modified. However when I do a "diff with previous version", it reports "no differences". If I use WinMerge I can see that the files ARE different. Does anyone know why t...
I am putting together a build system and wanted to know if there is a reliable way to find out if a checked out SVN folder needs updating (i.e. is it out of sync with the repository). I want to avoid a nightly build unless something has changed. I could write a script that parses the results of the svn update command I guess, but I won...
I'm trying to implement some hooks, both pre and post fail however. I get the same error message for both when I try to commit: '*-commit' hook failed (did not exit cleanly: apr_exit_why_e was 2, exitcode was -1073741515). with no output. Exitcode -1073741515 looks to be an odd one, and a quick bit of google-fu got me this: Tr...
I just updated from SVN, and one of my files has now disappeared... of course it wasn't committed because I knew I needed to update+merge first. I think maybe the guy renamed the file which means my SVN client deleted my file. I'm using VC++ 2008 & Visual SVN. Help... and for reference how is this kind of thing supposed to be avoided? ...
I tend to get the feeling that most folks here think SVN is gold-plated goodness, whereas VSS is the worst program ever devised (at least as Version Control is concerned). That said, why? I've used some CVS, and my current job uses VSS, and from a grunt on the team's perspective, I can't really tell that much difference. Most of the d...
I've been using SVN a lot as a single user on a single computer Now i'd like to share my stuff across multiple computers So far I've been checking out from "file://c:/myproject" i'd like to checkout from "svn://mycomputer/myproject" How can I map the first into the second? ...
I'm installing SVN with Apache 2.2 on windows 2003 everything seems good but when I try to login no username/password works Here is some info I load this module in httpd.conf LoadModule auth_basic_module modules/mod_auth_basic.so and in svnserv.conf i have [general] anon-access=read auth-access=write password-db=passwd authz-db=authz ...
OS: Windows. For my personal stuff I just use hotcopy once a week but for a more mission critical repo(s), that includes many developers, is that enough? Or should I spend the time to put together a more rigorous backup strategy that includes full dumps and incremental dumps? edit: I guess I should have been a little more clear. Ho...
What web based interface for browsing Subversion repositories do you like the most? We have tried Viewvc, but the installation seemed too complex for us. This is no poll. I'd really love to allow people at the office to be able to access the data at the repositories with their web browsers and see who modified each file and when. Subve...
Has anyone used Versions for OSX? I'm mainly wondering if it does everything TortoiseSVN does and if you can use both with the same checkout repo? Edit: The one issue I found is the diff viewer. The OSX developer FileMerger is just not that great. TortoiseSVN has got this right. ...
I'm experiencing a strange behavior of SVN. I've got SVN repository running on Apache 2.2.9 with mod_dav, mod_dav_svn and SVN 1.5.2. When I try to check out (from remote 1.5.4 client or server-local 1.5.2 client - both "default" svn binaries), I'm getting something like: mx-mac:Test mx$ svn ci -m "" Adding test.txt svn: Commit f...
I'm trying to understand the differences in terms of subversion repository security between a regular svn:// and svn+ssh:// access. I've setup my subversion repository in a custom port and ip address and opened that same port on the firewall, and configured the repository with access only to authenticated users. From what I could under...
I'm adding an existing site to SVN. The files already exist on the webserver, and now identical copies (- config files) exist in the repo. I want to convert the webserver directory into an SVN working copy, but when I run: svn checkout http://path.to/svn/repo/httpdocs . I get the error: "svn: Failed to add file '': object of the same...