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Re: Subversion: list of respositories

From: Erik Huelsmann <ehuels_at_gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2011 13:10:32 +0200

> I would think that it looks at SVNParentPath and tries to treat every

> > subdirectory of that as a repository.
>
> Not quite. It's not "every subdirectory", it's "every child
> directory". That means it will not descend into subdirectories of
> subdirectories, fir example, so they all need to be right there in
> /var/svn. Also, while symlinks to other locations may be acceptable to
> the mod_dav_svn module, the repositories need to be accessible to the
> "apache" user. This can get adventuresome if you're running svnserve
> or svn+ssh access without a devault svn+ssh user, used in parallel to
> Apache.
>

While links are acceptable to mod_dav_svn, they won't appear in the
repository listing. Note that you need the SVNListParent On statement in
your Apache config to get a listing of the repositories.

In 1.7 I've committed a small change to list symlinks to directories which
will be part of 1.7.

Bye,

Erik.
Received on 2011-07-18 13:11:14 CEST

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