On Feb 7, 2008 12:28 PM, Rush Manbert <rush_at_manbert.com> wrote:
> Here's a dumb question. I have a large repository that will be shared by
> multiple developers. We're hosting it on a Mac running OS X, so it's a
> Unix box. Where do people normally locate the repository directory in
> this situation?
>
> I originally created the repo on my local system, and I put it in
> /usr/local/share/companyName/svnRepos/specificRepositoryName, but I
> suspect that's not a good "official" location.
>
>
There's no one correct answer. However, you're safer if you keep the
repository somewhere where people can't write to it (directly) and let
svnserve or Apache handle access to it. This also prevents problems of one
person accessing it with a 'newer' version of the client and silently
updating something in the repository (because file:// protocol repos get
accessed directly by the client).
In Linux (or other Unix boxes), I created an svn user account. In svn's
home directory, I created a directory called 'repos' and put my repositories
in there. I set up a svnserve service that gets run (as user svn). I also
put scripts to back things up in ~/bin and have them run automatically by
cron (scheduled) jobs.
You could probably do something similar in on a Mac.
- Kevin
Received on 2008-02-08 01:13:41 CET