Re: Setting up new Subversion server

On Jun 12, 2009, at 15:24, David Weintraub wrote:

> svnadmin won't fail if svnserve isn't running. After all, how can
> you run svnserve without first creating the repository with the
> svnadmin command? ;-)

Put another way: svnadmin always talks directly to repository files
on disk. It never talks to a Subversion server like svnserve or Apache.

> The "svnserve" command is the built in svn server for a single
> repository. Most sites actually use the Apache httpd server to do
> this. Apache has built in security and allows you to have multiple
> Subversion repositories. It also automatically starts up on boot.
>
> The "svnserve" command's big advantage is that it is simple. You
> run "svnadmin -d -r $REPOSITORY_ROOT" and you're done.

You mean "svnserve" here, not "svnadmin".

> Quick and simple, and you don't have to muck with Apache's
> configuration to get it to work. Something to consider when you
> don't have administrative access to the machine, and your System
> Admins aren't very helpful.
>
> The problem with svnserve is that it can only handle a single
> repository on a single port.

svnserve can handle multiple repositories too, just like Apache can.
Simply point svnserve's -r option at a directory containing multiple
repositories instead of at a repository.

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Received on 2009-06-13 01:30:09 CEST