[Fwd: Subversion setup on icarus]

[Leo Simons]

Hi gang,

if we are serious about wanting to move to svn, now is a good time to try stuff out and provide feedback.

cheers,

- Leo

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Subject: Subversion setup on icarus
Date: Wed, 08 Jan 2003 05:55:54 -0800
From: Justin Erenkrantz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: Justin Erenkrantz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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icarus now has a Subversion server running. It is currently at r4290. Clients are at /usr/local/svn-0.17-dev/bin on icarus. Commons has volunteered itself to be the ASF test drive for Subversion. We'll be playing with it over the next few weeks.

There are a few repositories setup right now:

* http://cvs.apache.org/repos/test/
This is a scratch repository. Anyone can read/write to it. Use it to test it out and play with it.

* http://cvs.apache.org/repos/asf/
For now, I think the plan is for this to become the master SVN repository for the ASF (one repository for the entire ASF). Not sure yet though. This repository is readable by everyone, but requires authentication for committing. In order to add yourself, you have to create an htpasswd entry in /x2/svn/asf-committers in order to commit (/usr/local/apache2/bin/htpasswd). Anyone with apcvs privs should be able to do that.

* http://cvs.apache.org/wiki/
Subversion-based wiki. We get all of the diff-style changes we've been asking for if we use this. It's also written in Python rather than Perl. Plus, the Subversion backing repository is at http://cvs.apache.org/repos/wiki/. You can directly commit changes to that repository rather than using the wiki if that suits your fancy.

For those who hate HTTP and want to cling to SSH tunneling, I'd recommend checking out ra_svn (go read the Subversion docs on it). Also, autoversioning support should be enabled, so you should be able to mount these repositories with WebFolders or whatever DAV client suits your fancy. (Mac OS X Finder requires turning on mod_dav_lock for writability which I haven't done yet.)

I do plan on adding mod_ssl, but no one has stepped up with a certificate or CA that we should use. If no one suggests anything soon, I'll just create a self-signed CA. Not happy about that, but if no one else wants it, fine. (If someone could produce a good self-signed CA, it'd save me lots of time!)

Let me know if you have questions or whatnot. This isn't official by any means, but this is a good time to try Subversion out and get feedback. -- justin

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