I’ve used Subversion for all of a week and already like it better than CVS. It took weeks to get comfortable with CVS commands, and I needed to constantly relearn them. SVN commands come to mind quite naturally already. I’m up and running under Subversion and am declaring the conversion from CVS as complete.
Tried to connect to my SVN WebDAV folder from Windows XP, both from Add Network Place and using FrontPage. FrontPage worked first try and was able to download the repository. To upload, I need a dav_fs filesystem, not dav_svn. Add Network Place failed as described in a Caltech web page found with Google(Windows XP WebDAV […]
Adding Basic Authentication As detailed on 14 Nov, the lack of httpd authentication prevents svn updates from getting an author assigned. So now I’m installing authentication per the Subversion instructions: htpasswd2 -cm /etc/apache2/basicHTTPpasswd bozzie Cut & pasted the Auth{Type,Name,User} directives from the instructions into the <Location> /svn section of my default-server.conf file. Cut & pasted […]
Trouble with $Id: sdogWP-X10.sql,v 1.4 2014/11/18 06:10:40 tguthrie Exp tguthrie $ and related keyword properties solved after finding a “How to get keywords to work” search result and learing that while double-quotes are required when using svn propset, they must not be used in the config file. Next, the output of svn diff is a […]
One of the main advantages of Subversion (SVN) over CVS is provision for network access via WebDAV vs. the custom CVS server. That being the case, I decided to set up SVN with httpd access right from the start. Apache Modifications: Added mod_dav & mod_dav_syn using the SuSE Yast, Network Services, HTTPD screen. This GUI […]