Subversion Setup

How I set up subversion repositories on my Linux box. I got most of
this form the subversion
book. I’ll try to link to the specific parts of the book where
each part came from.

First, href=“http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.1/ch05s02.html”>create the
repository using fsfs for the database, because I heard it’s way
cooler than Berkeley db. Seriously (no really, I wish I had a better
reason, I read something that I found on Google somewhere that it
was).

svnadmin create --fs-type fsfs /path/to/repos/project

Next, set up the project directory tree to be imported. I’m using
what seems to be the standard setup with trunk, branches, and tags
sub-directories, as somewhat explained in the href=“http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.1/ch04s02.html”>section on
using branches in the svn book.

mkdir project
mkdir project/tags project/branches project/trunk
cp -r /path/to/work/in/progress/* project/trunk/

Lately it’s a python project I’m putting into subversion so I
remove the .pyc files, they don’t go under revision control so one
more step:

find project/ -name "*.pyc" | xargs rm

Now import it:

svn import project file:///path/to/repos/project -m "initial import"

See that it worked:

svn list file:///path/to/repos/project

To really make sure it worked, href=“http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.1/ch03s04.html”>check out
the project somewhere else:

cd /tmp
svn checkout file:///path/to/repos/project/trunk project

And that’s it, as long as you only want local access. I’ve set up
network access through Apache and I need to write that up too (before
I totally forget).

UPDATE: I finally wrote up how to setup subversion over httpd.

Posted by Bryan on February 2, 2006