Hi guys, haven't had any takers for my question below on "users", and would
really appreciate it if you guys could take a look at it. I imagine its an issue
others may face too.
Patrick Sunter wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Some of our developers live behind a http proxy that doesn't allow all
> of the HTTP methods that subversion needs... thus we use the ssh port
> forwarding approach described in the FAQ at
> http://subversion.tigris.org/project_faq.html#paranoid, which works fine.
>
> However, we also want to use svn:externals so that several of our
> projects can automatically check out a shared module of code, and the 2
> features don't seem to work together.
>
> To illustrate:
> in the repository directory http://rd01.vpac.org/svn/StGermain/trunk, I
> set the svn:externals property to:
> spmodeldata http://rd01.vpac.org/svn/SPModel/trunk/data
> All good so far, for those of us connecting directly it checks out the
> requested URL into an "spmodeldata" subdirectory.
>
> But if someone is port-forwarding, so e.g. they have checked out the
> StGermain repository through the url
> http://localhost:8888/svn/StGermain/trunk,
> then they will be unable to fetch the svn:external due to the
> aforementioned http proxy server problem when svn tries to grab it
> through http directly.
>
> what we'd like to happen is for the
> http://rd01.vpac.org/svn/SPModel/trunk/data in the svn:externals to be
> 'translated' to http://localhost:8888/svn/SPModel/trunk/data
> automatically. Does svn have support for this? I couldn't find any
> documentation on it, or any relevant mailing list messages.
>
> Any help greatly appreciated.
>
> cheers, Patrick.
>
> P.S. There was something in the FAQ page above that might be related:
> "Joe Orton notes:
> The server is sensitive to the hostname used in the Destination header
> in MOVE and COPY requests, so you have to be a little careful here - a
> "ServerAlias localhost" may be required to get this working properly."
>
> but I'm not super apache savvy so it didn't really click with me.
>
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Patrick Sunter
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Received on Fri Mar 12 02:26:01 2004