Re: Strange behaviour with 'svn' in the host name

On Nov 6, 2008, at 04:39, kevin_at_klystron.com wrote:

> We're not using Apache - the repositories are just served by
> 'svnserve'.

Oops, I misread that.

> Or does 'svnserve' magically use part of Apache in a manner which
> we're
> not expecting or aware of?

Definitely not.

> Are we right in believing that 'svnserve' is a
> completely stand-alone daemon?

Yes.

> But there is a little update which is even more confusing. I created
> repositories Repo1 and Repo2 with the 'svnadmin create' command.
> Repo2 is
> moved down one level into a normal directory immediately below the SVN
> root and Repo1 is left in the 'normal' place. In this case
>
> svn://www.example.com/Repo1
> svn://www.example.com/Subdir/Repo2
> svn://svn.example.com/Repo1
>
> all work just fine, but
>
> svn://svn.example.com/Subdir/Repo2
>
> reports "repository not found".

How are you starting svnserve? What is the -r parameter? Does it
correctly point to the directory where you have the repository
directories?

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Received on 2008-11-06 23:47:13 CET