Re: Subversion: list of respositories

On 7/18/2011 6:47 AM, Matthew Beals wrote:
> The simple trick to user rights I use is to make the repo owned by
> www-data to give Apache access and use group permissions for svn+SSH.
> I'm not sure if acl's work or not.
>
> I always viewed svn as just being a method to interact with individual
> repos... it really has no clue what is going on outside of its own
> world. To handle this issue, I made a wrapper script for svnadmin that
> parses the input and output and logs to an SQL database which I then
> access through Apache to build a display list of repos (and change logs).

Viewvc works nicely as a web browser front end to show the repos and
browse contents and logs, but then you need a straightforward mapping of
the viewvc URL to one for svn - which is easy to arrange if they are all
under the same top-level directory.

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   Les Mikesell
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