Svn

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Setting Up a svn server

1.Installing SVN

 In Debian Linux -- using etch repository -- $apt-get install svn

2.Creating Repository

 svnadmin create <path_to_repo>. svnadmin is a utility that comes with svn for creating repository.
 <path_to_repo> is the absolute path to where you want to creat the repo. ex : svnadmin create /svn

3.Making the svn repository accessible through network using svnserve

 As root, edit /etc/inetd.conf to add the following (all on ONE line):
 svn stream tcp nowait svnowner /usr/bin/svnserve svnserve -i

 As root, edit /etc/services to confirm or add the following:
 svn 3690/tcp # Subversion
 svn 3690/udp # Subversion

4.svn authentication.

 Authentication settings are done in the two files passwd and svnserv.conf in the conf dir in your repository root
 The svnserv.conf file comes with a commented general template. Uncomment the following lines :
 [general]
 anon-access = read
 auth-access = write
 password-db = passwd
 realm = My First Repository

 The username and password is created in the passwd file as follows:
 [users]
 test : testing
 Here, test is the username and testing is the password.
 

5.Putting a new project in the svn repository

 Say we want to import a new project into the svn. We begin by creating a skeleton of the project to be imported. Make a temprorary
 directory and create the project skeleton:EX.
 mkdir tem_dir
 cd tem_dir
 mkdir ProjectA
 mkdir ProjectA/trunk
 mkdir ProjectA/branches
 mkdir ProjectA/tags
 You can create more than one project like that.
 After that, populate the project skeleton with the initial project file, if any.
 To import the project do(You must be in the tem_dir, (as in our example here) :
 svn import . <path_to_repos> -m 'Initial repository layout'

6.Checking out from the svn repo

 To check out a project named, say, ProjectA : svn co <user>@<path_to_repo>/<proj_name> <proj_name>
 It could be something like : svn co tenzin@192.168.0.123:/svn/ProjectA ProjectA
 The project will then be checked out in your computer in the working directory with the name ProjectA