Questions tagged [svn-administraton]
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How do I set up access control in SVN?
I have set up a repository using SVN and uploaded projects. There are multiple users working on these projects. But, not everyone requires access to all projects. I want to set up user permissions for each project.
How can I achieve this?

user15425
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User permissions for add/remove a file/folder in svn
I have a requirement that I need to control the permission to add/delete(not read/modify/write) a file in svn. I checked if svn access control has ways to do it. But it does not seems to have this kind of restriction.
I was checking for some…

Version Control Buddy
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SVN Show Log not working
How can I use the show log feature without setting [/] * = r (reads to everyone/everything).
I have a couple of groups in my authz file. It Looks like this:
[groups]
Profs = dave,bruno,franck
Team1 = 1036091,1036103,1036087
Team2 =…

Dave
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Get the highest revision number from a subversion dump file in Perl or shell
I would like to extract the highest revision number in a subversion dump file.
Besides parsing the file line by line, is there any easier (and hopefully faster) way using standard perl (no extra modules allowed on the server) or bash shell…

Volker
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Merge Multiple SVN Projects
I'm administering a svn repo for a project where the source wasn't imported with a single top level directory. As a result, there are about 15 separate 'projects' instead of one. How can I merge these into one folder while maintaining the change…

Dana the Sane
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Resume failed svnrdump dump | svnadmin load
I tried to clone a remote svn repo like this:
svnadmin create /root/repo/
svnrdump dump svn://myserver | svnadmin load /root/repo/
But it failed with:
svnadmin: E140001: Sum of subblock sizes larger than total block content length
* adding path :…

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Empty or non-existent '/db/txn-current' in a Subversion repository
I've encountered an issue with Apache Subversion repository and I'm looking for the best solution:
I can't commit to a Subversion repository and I'm getting the error:
svn: E720002: Commit failed (details follow): svn: E720002: Can't open
file…

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SVN authz using linux group
Is it possible to setup an SVN authz file to use linux server groups?
To try to give a bit more detail/an example, say I have and SVN authz file as follows:
[groups]
developers = linuxUserA, linuxUserB
reviewers = linuxUserC
endUsers = linuxGroupA …

Jonny
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Dumping Subversion Repository one revision at a time
We have a big, giant sloppy Subversion repository that contains 60+ projects. The trunk, branches, and tags directories are in the root of the repository. Some branches are done branches/project/branchName. Others are done…

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SVN Load to older repository, but SVN Clients can't commit newer files
So our SVN server died overnight and the most recent dump was performed and copied off the server the day before.
Got a new SVN server up and going and loaded all the repositry backups from the last successfull dump. However there were commits made…

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How to Load partial repository dump without changing revision numbers
We have a corporate SVN repository with many projects being hosted, each with its own branches/trunk/tags. My team is only interested in 2 projects.
So I created 2 dump files using svnrdump. Now I'm trying to load them into my local SVN. But I would…

Sony Antony
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svn dump fails with WScript.Shell
var WshShell = new ActiveXObject("WScript.Shell");
var commandLine = "svnadmin dump " + repoFullPath + " > " + repoName + ".dumpfile";
WshShell.Exec(commandLine)
I am trying to run above cscript in Windows but it seems like, it's doing nothing. It…

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E185004 When 10% Through Loading Deltas Dump File for SVN
I have a deltas (version 3) dump file, which is about 48GB in size.
I attempted the following on my machine
svnadmin create ./path/to/testRepo
svnadmin load ./path/to/testRepo < ./path/to/my.dump
The dump file that I'm working with runs fine with…

barelySentient
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"Db/txn-current-lock permission denied" Error on Linux SVN Server
For source controlling, I installed SVN .After that Add SVN Admin add-on in Webmin to configure users and their permission visually.
But I got an error when commit a new file/folder to repository. It seems the problem comes from user permission in…

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how to add svn dummy revisions to resolve my issue of "No such revision 171"
I want to change the server of svn but i am unable to dump the repository, its giving me error "No such revision 171". I also tried to dump in parts svnadmin dump /repos r172:190> home/j/repos.svn_dump but this command still give error no such…

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