Questions tagged [svn]
Subversion is a centralized open-source revision control system, founded by CollabNet Inc. and maintained by The Apache Software Foundation.
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How to find who deleted a line from a file in a SVN repository?
I work on a very large project (10000+ versions) and sometimes it happened that I need to know who of the other users deleted some line in a file. Is there a way to do that that? I can do svn blame ...
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How to overcome SVN -- could not open the requested SVN file system
I followed all the steps in https://help.ubuntu.com/8.04/serverguide/C/subversion.html
but when I try to do:
svn co https://localhost/svn
I get:
svn: Repository moved permanently to 'https://...
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Tortoise svn repo browser too slow
Tortoise SVN 1.9.5 repo browser is very slow if parent contains large # of projects(more than 10 mins). For other URL with the same repository where parent has few # of directory, it works. I do not ...
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SVN/Tortoise Always Makes Files Readonly
Whenever I do a checkout/update on my SVN project using Tortoise the files all get set to read-only. Is there an option to stop this? I have 1 particular project where I need any checkouts/updates to ...
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SVN repo issue with linux
I have an svn server (Hosted in windows server, local server for backup), if I connect to that server from windows system it is connecting but Linux system I can't able to access that Repo, recently I ...
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How to Recursively Remove .svn Directories?
How do I recursively delete all .svn directories, starting with the directory I am in?
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How to use Terminal to delete all .svn folders recursively?
What command can I type into the Terminal so that I can delete all .svn folders within a folder (and from all subdirectories) but not delete anything else?
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Finding locked files in svn without checking out
How can I find the files that I have locked in a svn tree that is so large (tens of thousands of files) that I want to avoid checking everything out:
Can I do some svn <magic arguments> | grep &...
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SVN access configuration
I have inherited a Fedora 17 server that is used to host Subversion repositories.
I thought it was configured with very limited access, but some tests today reveal that there is no access control at ...
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Disable editing read-only Word documents
Where I work we have many Word documents stored in our Subversion repository. These files are set as read-only most of the time (using the svn:needs-lock property in Subversion), to prevent multiple ...
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Registry Key Permissions Broken - How to Recover Access
I was recently looking for a solution to stop Dropbox from fighting with Svn for priority over the ShellIconOverlayIdentifiers in the system registry.
One solution was to set the permissions on the ...
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Visual SVN Server on Windows 10
I've just upgraded to Windows 10 and Visual SVN Server has stopped working.
I've tried manually starting the service but that just errors. Looking at the event log the reported error is pretty ...
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How to combine to git repos coming from the same svn original project
I have two different git repositories that started as a clone of the same svn project. Naturally they share a good part of history. They also have different changes.
How can I "merge" them properly? ...
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Far Manager: Highlight file/dirs using external metadata (like SVN, Mercurial, Dropbox, etc)
I've recently migrated to Far Manager 3 and revised my app settings from scratch. One of those improvements was adjusting the file groups highlights (I didn't change them for long time even knowing ...
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how to move space from /dev/sda2 to /dev/sda3 in fedora 9
I have some issues to move space one /dev/sda2 to /dev/sda3 it mean
Help me to solve this issue, I need to move space from /home to /
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svn with ssh: authentication fails
I am trying to update a remote subversion repository but if fails.
Trying to debug it, this is the message:
debug1: Reading configuration data /home/balikas/.ssh/config
debug1: /home/balikas/.ssh/...
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Can I make Firefox display a file of known type (from a Subversion repository) as text?
When browsing a Subversion repository using Firefox and the http(s): URL, I want to take a quick look at text files in the browser itself. However, while Firefox displays unknown file types as text, ...
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How to setup SVN on my Computer
How do I setup SVN on my computer? I dont mean a local one. I have friends in other countries and I want to setup SVN on my computer so that they can upload and download work to my computer.
I have ...
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How to set up subversion http access with serf
With Subversion 1.8 serf has become the default http access method for Subversion repositories. The Subversion book however still only contains information on how to use the old neon based access ...
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Windows 7 is blocking ports
I am trying to open port 80 and 3690 for HTTP and svnserve respectively (inbound for both). I have Windows Firewall off, and have tried temporarily disabling Mcafee VirusScan Enterprise, to no avail. ...
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Installing Subversion on Unix machine
I'm new to unix and trying to create a guide for users to install subversion. I've found a tutorial about how to build from a tarball. I'm ready to try it out, but I don't know how to download the ...
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Subversion over https + WebDAV on nginx
I wonder how do I create SVN repo and let users access it over http[s] + WebDAV on nginx
I did not find any good tutorials describing this process whilst there are a lot of answers on this scheme but ...
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Manually Add the TortoiseSVN Registry information?
I recently installed TortoiseSVN on my Windows 7 64 bit computer. For reasons outside the scope of this question, the installer could not get appropriate permissions to add the keys that TSVN needs in ...
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Apache SVN realtime recommended backup solution
I have an apache subversion running in production environment, the repository size is around 100 GB. Now I am trying to build a failover standby for the primary SVN server. I have gone through a ...
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Where is SVN on OS X Mountain Lion?
I upgraded to OS X Mountain Lion and found out SVN is no longer present. I use Netbeans 6.9.1 in conjunction with Apache's SVN.
How can I get it back and working?
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How to get SVN's revert behaviour in Git
I know, I know, git revert but I just learned that it does not behave exactly the same as svn revert--at least, not in Visual Studio 2015, or maybe not in TortoiseGit. I'll explain:
I am new to ...
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Move nonstandard SVN repository to BitBucket
I am migrating my SVN repository to Git (BitBucket) using this tutorial. But I have not used standard SVN layout so it seems to be little problematic.
My SVN repo is simple copy of Android project.
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What is the simplest way to use svn repository through firewall without compromizing the security?
I have a multiple Win xp/7 PCs in a network that have no Internet access. All traffic is routed through a firewall PC (latest ubuntu LTS, without admin). This firewall has limited ports open to ...
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Using pwauth for authentication with SVN on RHEL6
We have recently installed SVN 1.6.11 and are attempting to run it using the Apache server (2.2.15) after finding svnserve to come up short of our needs. Our system is RHEL 6, and we would like to ...
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svn migration from one server to another in parts
I have certain SVN repositories which I want to migrate to another server.
The first option available to me is that I should take the dump from source and load to destination. This load process is ...
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Is there an established configuration file for running SubGit as an upstart service?
It seems that upstart is the right way to shut things down and start them up during the reboot process, but I failed to find configuration files with a search of SubGit documentation and a general ...
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Find folder contents difference on WIndows 7?
I have a larger folder containing all my SVN files. I got attacked my a virus destroying some files but also corrupting SVN config files, so now TortoiseSVN cannot recognize it as a SVN folder.
I can ...
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copy the entire svn repository with history
I have few svn repositories from one service provider which I want to move to another service provider, the repository should also have earlier commits/history along with the code.
I have searched ...
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Encoding issue SVN
I've some users that is using Mac and others Windows, but we have the problem that some files have the name "diseño" or "árbol" and this is causing errors in the clients in mac, and there is some ...
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How can I get SVN to recognize Mac Bundles as ASCII instead of Binary Streams?
I have a keynote file in which I am regularly editing the text, moving slides around, etc. There are a max of a few kilobytes of data changed in the internal .key XML file. However, SVN recognizes ...
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TortoiseSVN on local PC with existing projects
I have a few existing coding projects, in scattered directories and would like to bring them under version control on my local PC.
I tried following the instructions, but couldn't see how to add ...
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Visual SVN Server graphical management console missing after upgrading to Windows 10
After upgrading to Windows 10 from Windows 7 I am unable to find the VisualSVN Server graphical management console.
Previously, in Windows 7 through my start menu I had a "VisualSVN Server Manager" ...
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What are these odd characters appearing when I use P4Merge with TortoiseSVN?
When comparing files, I get these characters at the start of the diff.
Image of the strange characters
I'm not sure exactly what more information to provide, but will be watching this question if ...
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How can I prevent TortoiseSVN from trying to sync deleted folders to a closed repository?
I have a folder with all of my working copy folders in it. Most of the working copies are linked to repositories in one account, but one folder went to an old repository on a different account. I no ...
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share svn and git repo's between windows and linux
I dual boot my machine (Windows 7 and Ubuntu 16.04). If I were to assign a separate partition just to hold my software repositories, what's the best partition type to share the same git and svn ...
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Remove SVN from a directory and replace with newer SVN
So, I have a web server that has an old SVN client installation (as in lots of .svn directories that had been corrupted, never worked, files had to be updated manually). I now have a shiny new svn ...
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How to change SVN server IP address in client system after a checkout?
When I checkout my project into my local system the IP address of SVN server is 192.168.5.x.
Because I have a DHCP server in my network, now the SVN IP changes to 192.168.5.y.
When I try to commit I ...
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How to use VisualSVN Server and TortoiseSVN client
I will soon start working on a project and the source code is on a remote location. However, I have got the source code on my C drive in a folder. I have VisualSVN server and TortoiseSVN client on my ...
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How to change subversion working copy UUID?
I've recently updated Subversion repositories from an old 1.2.3 version to 1.6.0 via svnadmin dump/load. The old repositories all used the same UUID (repositories were created using by copying a ...
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Initialize ~/.subversion config directory during Vagrant provisioning
Setting up a Linux-based Vagrant box and configuration, I am looking at the following problem:
During provision stage, I am installing Subversion. I would like, also during the provision stage, to ...
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Application that can draw statistics from a Subversion repository? [closed]
Is there any application that can give me a summary of what is going on in a SVN repository? I want to know things like:
Number of lines of code
Biggest contributor
Most edited page
etc
Is there ...
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Windows batch: Get the first folder name starting with some value?
I have a batch file in which I pass the name of the folder I want to use as a argument. But now I want to make it a little smarter by letting the user specify only the first few characters of the name ...
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Setting up ethernet connect between 2 Win7 system
I am trying to setup SVN server in a computer and access repository from the server from another computer. Server and client works fine when they reside in one computer, but problem starts when I try ...
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Migrating a document store from SVN to Sharepoint10
I work for a large organisation that has had a somewhat fragmented approach to document / knowledge management. This is now changing and we have been mandated to move to Office 365 and the use of ...
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why all the sudden I cannot access a remote SVN?
I am working for a company remotely. The SVN server is running on their site. I access it from my home remotely for several months.
Yesterday morning I found I cannot access the SVN server. They ...
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