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Ankhsvn Error: Client too old to work with working copy

I am using Ankhsvn 2.0.6347.433 with Visual Studio 2005 and it's reporting that Ankhsvn's subversion client is too old for the working copy. The given error links to http://subversion.tigris.org/faq.html#working-copy-format-change which talks about using a 1.4.4 subversion client on a subversion 1.5 formated checkout. Ankhsvn's home pag...

Enforcing source control

Hello, How do I set some group policy rule or mechanism to make sure that every developer commits their code to the source control? I use visualsvn server with Ankhsvn client btw. Thanks ...

How to maintain slightly different software?

I have some projects that run on custom hardware. Now the hardware has changed, which required some software changes. Therefore, there is source A for "old hardware" and source B for "new hardware", which are 95% the same. If a new feature is added in the future, it has to be done for both versions. In other words, A und B will exist si...

Codeplex + SVN. How good is SVN bridge?

I avoided CodePlex because of it's lack of support for proper SVN and was dissuaded by complaints about short comings. Recently, I have been wanting to port my project from beanstalk over to codeplex because the latter is more social. What problems have you encountered and how good is the support for SVN. How good is the SVN bridge? ...

Subversion: Getting "The client is too old" even though all devs are running the same svn version

We are using Subversion to keep track of our code. As part of the build process, some AssemblyInfo.cs files gets temporarily edited by the build script, and when the build is done they are reverted (also by the build script). However, one of our developers get this message when the revert is attempted: The client is too old to work w...

What is the limit of source repositories in Visual Source Safe 2005

We're thinking of using VSS for a simulation development project so we will have both code and a pretty sizeable number of binary files (possibly several GBs or larger). I've seen references on the web to VSS limits of around 4-5 GB but I can't find any definate specs. My first choices would be SVN or Perforce but the team has a few pe...

Web SVN for Windows?

Is there an equivalent for Windows? http://www.websvn.info/features/ ...

Cron to Log the ip of a repository with a dynamic ip

Hi, I am using a mac mini with a dynamic ip to store an SVN repository. As an unexpected change of the ip makes it difficult to consistently use the repository, I am interested in creating a cron to log the ip on another server every time it changes. What would be the best way to do this? ...

Is there a Subversion Checkout Hook or something similar?

I'm using a subversion repository and I want to know whenever somebody asks my repository for a checkout; like a 'svn co' or an 'svn up'. Is there a hook or some other method that I can use so that a script is run, or email sent, whenever somebody requests information from my svn server? How can I achieve this without relying on apache l...

Suppressing or setting CreationDate/ModDate in R pdf output

When R creates PDFs using pdf() it includes a CreationDate and a ModDate in the PDF. I have a number of such generated PDFs in an svn repository and the effect is that when figures are remade by R, even with the same data, they appear as modified (rightly so) to svn. What's the best way to get the two to play nicely together? I could ...

How to specify access rights to projects in svn repository through apache in debian

can anybody tell me whether the following approach is correct or not? [groups] team1=user1 team2= user2.user3 [/] @team1=rw [subversion:/myproject1] @team=rw ...

Piping data on Windows command prompt

I need to get a backup dump of a large (~8gb) svn repository. My current method involves using svnadmin dump to a file and then using 7-Zip to compress and split the file. > svnadmin dump c:\path\to\myrepo > c:\svndump.svn > 7z svndump.svn svndump.7z // or whatever the correct syntax is I was wondering if there would be a way to ...

How do i use MSBuild with SVN?

Hi guys How does MSBuild called SVN task? Is there any examples or tutorial? Thanks for your help nikky ...

SVN: Colleague checked in a folder into repository, but I can't Update my version to it

Hi, In showing a colleague how to use SVN yesterday, we created a test folder and file within our existing Visual Studio Solution. We'll call it "Test" folder with two files, "Test.ascx" and "Test.ascx.cs". We added it (or Visual SVN added it, 'cos it's awesome), and committed it. We also added and committed other files elsewhere in the...

From a PHP Code Diff, can you tell which Classes and Functions have changed?

Background: PHPDoc ( http://www.phpdoc.org/ ) is a brilliant tool for extracting html documentation of your classes or methods from comments in your files. Adding PHPDoc comments also has other advantages - if you use an IDE like Zend or Netbeans, it will use the PHPDocs to show you autocompletion tips. Most Issue trackers have a featu...

SVN Maintenance

We have been using SVN at my workplace for a few years now and we really haven't done any kind of maintenance on it besides updates and backups since we installed it. Is there anything else we should be doing to maintain SVN or is what we've done all we really need to do? ...

Should I add compiled binaries to my Subversion repository?

I'm developing some class libraries with a distributed team. We use Subversion for our source control. One of the developers wants to commit his bin and obj directories to the repository, that has never been standard practice for me. What's the best practice? What are the pros and cons? ...

Subversion cross-file keyword substitution

My problem is: I wan't to display in file "A" the latest revision number of file "B". Subversion has a featured called "Keyword Substitution". It is used the replace keywords in the file content by the actual value when you commit it. But is it possible to add a keyword in a file that it will be substituted by a value related to other ...

Configuring Subversion to use system users/passwords

I'm using Subversion 1.6.1 with Apache, on a Linux machine. The server is running over http, not https. I want to allow people to authenticate using the same login/password that they use to log into the machine via SSH. The SVN manual only explains how to use HTTP Basic Auth and Digest authentication. But with these approaches, I need t...

Cruisecontrol.net missing checkins

I've setup a CCNET and on the whole it's working fine. It polls the SVN server and checks out the code if it sees any changes. Except, that is, when there is a checkin during the build. Currently the build and test run takes about 3 - 4 mins, if anyone checks in the code during the build crusie control does not recognise the checkin and ...