On Mon, 2004-06-07 at 12:00, Yuan-Yuan Sun wrote:
> So, a Quick Start for someone who must set up and run a SubVersion
> repository please.
I disagree. I don't think there *can* be a Quick Start for "setting up
and running a repository." There are dozens of difficult choices to
make: how will you organize the repository? How will you back it up?
Who will own the repository? What will your hook-scripts do? Which
server will you set up? Which authentication and authorization systems
will you use?
There's no way that a "Quick Start" guide can make these complex choices
for you. Administrators actually have to read all of chapter 5 and 6 to
get the full background they need to make these important decisions.
That information isn't compressible into a tiny bulleted list.
Not everything in life has shortcuts.
>
> b) bits of information are simply missing. e.g. Where is that
> svnserve.conf I need to add to for user authentication? I had to go
> online to figure out "oh, it's the one in the repository"! It has
> nothing whatsoever to do with /etc/subversion or the conf in the
> user's Home...
What about the 2nd bullet, right at the very beginning of the
authn/authz section for svnserve?
"The server processes the repository's conf/svnserve.conf file, and
begins to enforce any authentication and authorization policies defined
therein."
That bullet is pretty explicit about the location of the file.
Granted, I guess we can be a bit clearer about that. We could write a
separate sentence somewhere else that re-states the file's location.
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Received on Mon Jun 7 19:28:49 2004