Re: Reinstall SVN?

On 3 November 2012 05:21, Taylor Murphy <tmurphy158111_at_gmail.com> wrote:
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> I had been using TortoiseSVN on my Windows Vista box for over a year for solo development. I also have XAMPP stack installed. I need to move my repo to a host so another developer can work with me. Since I don't have a SVN server installed and hence a command line, I couldn't generate a dump file, so I tried to install Subversion. After installation, TortoiseSVN couldn't connect to the repository on localhost, giving an error message "No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it."
>

What URL were you previously using to access your repository? Unless
it started with file:// then you must have had a server installed
already. localhost sounds very much like an http:// connection.

> After much searching around, I finally decided to uninstall Subversion and do a repair install of TortoiseSVN. Still got the error. I looked at the svn service, and it's trying to invoke svnserve.exe in c:\svn\bin, but that folder is empty except for a help and a readme file.
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> I assume that TortoiseSVN installed a version of SVN in c:\svn. How can I restore/reinstall/repair it so that the service will run again, assuming the service being down is what's preventing TortoiseSVN from connecting to the repo?

Nope. TortoiseSVN is just a client. It does not install a server at
all. Since 1.7.0 the TortoiseSVN installer will optionally install the
subversion command line tools within the {Program Files}/TortoiseSVN
folder, but that is all it does. It does not create a service or
anything like that. You must have done this yourself.

Simon

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