A Glass case of Thoughts

Assumptions:
You already have SVN installed on your linux server. If you do not know if it is installed, just type command

which svn

If this returns a valid path as output, then it means that svn is installed on your linux box. If not, you need to install it. Installing subversion is very easy (for most distributions) and ample documentation is available on the web. You can start with http://subversion.apache.org/.

Four steps to complete svn repository creation on linux

1. log onto server as root
2. I prefer to have all svn repositories in one directory for better organization and easy maintenance. So next step for me would be to change to my svn directory.

   cd /svnRepos

   If you do not already have a directory for svn repositories, I would recommend creating one.

   mkdir svnRepos

3. Create repository using following command

svnadmin create /path/to/repo/RepoName

where : RepoName is the name of repository to be created. As an example, I want to create a repository for my testproject. I would write

svnadmin create testproject

4. Change group ownership of repository for the intended group. In this case, consider I have a user group created as “all” and I want this group to have ownership to this repository.

   chown -R :all /path/to/repo/RepoName

5. Grant Read/Write/Execute permissions to “all” on this repository

   chmod -R 770 /path/to/repo/RepoName

After this, all you need to do is

• Install a client like tortoiseSVN on the user’s machine
• SVN Checkout the repository. I would use a URL like following to connect to my newly created repository

  svn+ssh://username@servername/path/to/repo/RepoName

  Where

  • username: one of the users from group all
  • servername: my linux server which hosts SVN

  For my testproject, the path looks like

  svn+ssh://jyotsnas@servername/svnRepos/testproject

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