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Organizing repositories.

From: Jacobo García <jacobo.garcia_at_gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2009 13:40:36 +0200

Hi,

I am trying to re-organize the svn repositories of the company where I
work. Below I'll explain what I aiming for:

For each client I want to have a separated directory, and one svn
repository for each project inside this client's directory.

So let's say I have a client called 'wadus' and 2 projects for this
client named 'foo' and 'bar'.

 mkdir -p /var/lib/svn/wadus
 svnadmin create /var/lib/svn/wadus/foo
 svnadmin create /var/lib/svn/wadus/bar

I also want that if you go browse the main page of the repository lets
say: http://svn.mycompany.com you can see a listing of all the clients
(dirs) and browse up to the repositories as well.

My third goal is to keep the configuration as much minimalistic as I
can. It'd be perfect if i don't have to write any configuration when I
have to add a new client to subversion. I haven't met this goal for
the moment.

My first attempt is explained in the following configuration, this is
the main svn apache virtualhost:

<VirtualHost *>
    ServerName svn.mycompany.com
    ServerAlias *.svn.mycompany.com
    Include /etc/apache2/svn-clients/*
    LogLevel Debug
    ErrorLog /var/log/apache2/svn.err
    CustomLog /var/log/apache2/svn.log combined
</VirtualHost>

And inside /etc/apache2/svn-clients/ a file named 'wadus' after the
client with the same name with the following config:

<Location /wadus>
    DAV svn
    SVNParentPath /var/lib/svn/wadus/
    SVNListParentPath On
    AuthType Basic
    AuthName "Subversion Repository"
    AuthUserFile /etc/apache2/dav_svn.passwd
    Require valid-user
</Location>

Every client's directory will have a file like the one above.

The repositories both work in http and command line. But I can't get a
listing of all the directories when trying to browse
http://svn.mycompany.com ( I get an apache Not Found error, which
makes sense). I tried to add a document root in the main svn config
file but then I got the infamous 301 error (see
http://subversion.tigris.org/faq.html#http-301-error) when checking
out.

So, how can I make my repository browsable from the list of
directories that contains the projects?

Also, having a flat directory hierarchy (so I can use SVNParentPath
and forget about everything) makes the repository harder to browse, so
I think it's not smart at all. Is there any way to have a 2 level
(clients/projects) hirerarchy with just one single apache config file?

Thanks for your time.

Jacobo García López de Araujo
blog: http://robotplaysguitar.com
http://workingwithrails.com/person/13395-jacobo-garc-a

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