Migrating a repository

• on machine with old repo, do sudo svnadmin dump . > boxaroo_svn_dump
• on new machine:

mkdir -p /var/svn/boxaroo
# make a fresh new repository.  Note, this has a different 'base' than before
svnadmin create --fs-type fsfs /var/svn/boxaroo/
cd /var/svn/boxaroo/
svnadmin load . < boxaroo_svn_dump 

Setting up the repository

• As of 2/20/07 the newest Yum-able Centos Subversion is 1.1. So I installed 1.4.2 from an rpm. Similarly, the newest Mac version is 1.4.2, and only supports the Berkeley DB method. So I'm building the Mac version from source. I downloaded the standard package and the deps package, untar-ed them on top of one another and built.
• (as root)
• mkdir /var/svn
• svnadmin create --fs-type fsfs /var/svn/
• set /var/svn/conf/svnserve.conf to look like this

[general]
anon-access = write
auth-access = write
realm = SnapSell

• Launch the server like this: svnserve -d -r /var/snapsrc/
  • Or, better yet, use the attached below file in /etc/init.d

Pulling down a new copy

• svn checkout svn://10.1.0.41/main /var/www/main/

Administration

• svnlook
• svnadmin verify /var/svn - verifies all the revisions based on checksums and such
• svnlook youngest /var/svn - get latest revision

Adding a new project

• svn import main file:///var/svn/main -m "Initial checkin"

Error that happens if files differ just by case...

-- MattWalsh - 20 Feb 2007