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Difference between the format and db/format files in a Subversion repository

What is the difference between the following two files on an SVN server (ie not in a checked out repository)? format db/format In our repositories the contents of the first is 5 while the contents of the second is 2
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How can I switch an existing set of Subversion repositories to use ActiveDirectory? (svnserve/windows)

I have a set of private Subversion repositories on a Windows Server 2003 box which developers access via SVNServe over the svn:// protocol. Currently we have been using the authz and passwd files for each repository to control access however with…
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How can systemd run a command as root before launching a service as a different user?

I'm running svnserve on a Fedora 17 machine with the following systemd service file: [Unit] Description=Subversion Server After=syslog.target network.target [Service] User=svn Type=forking Environment=HOME=/repos/svn ExecStart=/usr/bin/svnserve…
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Subversion path differences for svn and svn+ssh

[02:48][root@server:~] ps ax | grep svn 23986 ? Ss 0:00 /usr/bin/svnserve -d -r /srv/svn As you see from arguments my svn root dir is /srv/svn. Now, some magic from remote machine... This works: > svn co…
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How do i find out which svn config is currently used on a server?

I have reciently started at a new place, currently wanting to use svn for source code. On the main server we currently have svn installed with several possible svn configs. I am wondering how to find out which svn config is the svn server is…
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svnserve+sasl+ldap : saslauthd not contacted?

I am trying to authenticate subversion users against sasl+ldap. Other questions about this problem seem to be related to earlier versions of subversion, or sasldb authentication. lsb_release -a No LSB modules are available. Distributor ID:…
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Setting up SVN server for multiple users over http

The SVN annotate feature is quite powerful and makes quick work of who to track down for a particular feature on a particular line of code. This feature is rendered slightly more limited (but still useful) if users access SVN via http. There are…
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Subversion: Can't move... Permission Denied

Whilst trying to commit some files to SVN, we're suddenly all getting this error Can't move '/usr/local/svn/articles/db/txn-protorevs/2002-8.rev' to '/usr/local/svn/articles/db/revs/2/2003': Permission denied I checked the permissions in the…
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Confused about setting up subversion

I've already compiled and installed subversion, now trying to add users to it. And I find two articles on this, but they seem to be going in entire different direction. The 1st is here, which looks very simple, and seems it's not necessary to create…
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svnserve seems to write files as root. How can I give access to the same repository via svnserve and apache?

The aim is to set up subversion with both svnserve and apache/webdav access. When users commit via http/apache, files are written to the filesystem and belong to apache user. When users commit via svn/svnserve, files are written to the filesystem…
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Setting up svnserve as a service on RHEL5/CentOS system

How can I configure svnserve to run as a service. svnserve -d -r /var/svn/ just works until the server is restarted. Edit1: server details root@vps [~]# uname -a Linux vps.example.com 2.6.18-028stab070.14 #1 SMP Thu Nov 18 16:04:02 MSK 2010 x86_64…
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Problems serving SVN over HTTPS on Ubuntu 10.04

We've been experiencing some problems with our Subversion server after upgrading to Ubuntu 10.04. When trying to access a repository, regardless of client (I've tried git-svn and svn on Windows as well as svn on Ubuntu 10.04, from different…
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Is it safe to run two instances of svnserve on one repository, or only one?

We've two nodes running heartbeat/drbd, and one of the services we're using is subversion. What I want to know is: is it safe to run svnserve on both nodes all the time, or should it only run on the active node? Does svnserve use file-level locking,…
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Problems using svn merge --reintegrate (subversion 1.6.17)

I'm trying to use the Subversion merge --reintegrate feature to merge a development branch back to the project trunk. Subversion version 1.6.17 on Fedora 14. I get the following [me@fedora14 product_trunk]$ svn merge --reintegrate…
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svn server settings - no access allowed

Sorry for the beginner question. I am trying to set up a SVN server for the first time. I have the server running but every time I try to checkout I get an error: No access allowed to this repository I was able to checkout when I set anon-access…
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