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Re: dav directory does not exist

From: Hyrum K. Wright <hyrum_wright_at_mail.utexas.edu>
Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2008 08:31:14 -0700

Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>
> On Jun 27, 2008, at 01:56, mistermartin75 wrote:
>
>> I have the following problem with svn. After creating a repository
>> with svnadmin create, the repository folder does not have a 'dav'
>> directory, thus I am unable to commit to the repository (I can
>> checkout). I have googled a lot but was unable to find anything. I
>> appear to have everything installed just fine. I have openSUSE 11.0
>> with the default SVN and Apache.
>
> A Subversion repository is not supposed to contain a directory called
> "dav"... why do you think it should?

Actually, it does (though I have no idea what it's used for):
$ svnadmin create blah
$ cd blah/
$ ls
README.txt dav format locks
conf db hooks
$ ls dav/
$

> If you are trying to connect to a Subversion repository via a normal
> WebDAV client (and not a Subversion client) then what you want is
> autoversioning, which needs to be separately enabled.
>
> http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.4/svn.webdav.html

Received on 2008-06-27 17:31:41 CEST

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