I do IT consulting at a bunch of different companies, and sometimes
deploy subversion server on Windows, Linux, and Apple Xserve.
In my experience, it doesn't matter which platform it runs on. The main
considerations are:
- apache gives a lot more control and secure access, but it's the
hardest to setup. (Ideal would be https:// and authnz_ldap for
authentication; giving granular encrypted secure control of permissions
and centrally synchronized passwords.)
- Svnserve is noticeably faster, and easier to setup, but not much
permission control and not amazingly secure.
- I do NOT recommend anything else, such as file:/// or svn+ssh://
If your IT people have abundance of windows machines, and they want to
install it on windows server, I don't think you have any need to push
the issue. Just let them know it might be difficult to install on some
server, if there's already an http server there.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Roth, Pierre [mailto:pierre.roth@covidien.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2007 6:11 AM
> To: users@subversion.tigris.org
> Subject: Linux prefered for running Subversion : call for testimonials
>
> Hi all,
>
> After one year in my new company, I finally succeeded in convincing my
> software department manager to switch from Visual Source Safe to
> Subversion. I just have then to convince my IT department to make it
> run on a Linux server instead of a Windows server (clients are running
> under Windows XP).
>
> I would like then to compile into a single short document all the
pro's
> for running the subversion server on a Linux machine.
>
> I've read the archives and found some ideas.
>
>
> I intiate the list by topic ...
>
> 1- Scripting :
> 1-a : Scripting languages are easier to setup/develop under *nix
> systems. Implementing fine-tuned hooks (server side) is more
> comfortable
> in a *nix environment.
> reference :
> http://osdir.com/ml/version-control.subversion.vss2svn.user/2006-
> 12/msg0
> 0055.html
> 1-b : to be continued...
>
> 2- Performance :
> 2-a : "NTFS Filesystem does not seem to perform well with large
bnumber
> of small filles" (I can't confirm it since I absolutely does not know
> Windows NTFS capabilities)
> reference :
> http://subversion.tigris.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=users&&msgNo=61947
>
> 2-b : to be continued...
>
>
> 3- To be continued :
>
>
>
> ... And I would appreciate your answers to make it as precise as
> possible.
>
> Thank you very much for your precious feedback !
>
>
> Pierre
>
> Please, note that the "subversion configuration" used will be :
> Subversion with apache and probably accessed through https.
>
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