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The acronym SVN stands for Subversion, a very common and popular Version Control System.

The acronym SVN stands for Subversion, a very common and popular Version Control System.

The subversion book is an excellent reference, source it in your SVN answers! Please link to the latest stable release of the book. Links to the nightly build will eventually break when sections in the book are reorganized.

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Subversion error: (405 Method Not Allowed) in response to MKCOL

I am getting the following error while trying to commit a new directory addition. svn: Commit failed (details follow): svn: Server sent unexpected return value (405 Method Not Allowed) in response to MKCOL request for '.... I have never seen this…
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subversion load fails with "no such revision"

I'm trying to learn how to migrate a Subversion repo, and am running into an issue that doesn't make sense to me. I've used svndumpfilter to split out a sub-project, and have removed some path prefixes. Several hundred commits now import correctly,…
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svn: E170000: Unrecognized URL scheme for httpxxxx

Looks like the custom built svn doesn't work for http URLs. After searching online, I understood that I need to install neon libraries which I did. After installing neon when i am building the subversion it fails at make. I tried clean and again…
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SVN client authentication error

I have the following error when ever I try to connect to a SVN server on my network: Could not authenticate to server: rejected Basic challenge Can anyone help?
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How to resolve "svn: Can't find a temporary directory: Internal error"?

I have already googled the message, and I have plenty of disk space available on the SVN server (it's about 4% usage of 150 GB). I have noticed that when I try echo $TMPDIR at the command prompt on the SVN server I get nothing. What is making this a…
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Best way to create an SVN-Mirror?

I am currently looking into the best way to set up an SVN mirror. I currently see three possibilities all with their own drawbacks: Have an SVN post-commit-Hook that is blocking and syncing via svnsync. The problem here is obviously, that the…
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How to upgrade v2 to v3 FSFS subversion filesystem

Firstly, I am trying to reintegrate a branch with the trunk (using TortoiseSVN) but I am getting the error message "Querying merge info requires version 3 of the FSFS filesystem schema; filesystem E:/MyRepository/ uses only version 2". Was it really…
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How/when to create trunk, branches and tags directories in a new subversion repository?

When's the best time to create the trunk, branches and tags directories? I have executed svnadmin create --fs-type fsfs /home/firefli/web/projects/subversion and have myself a blank repo. If I create, say, the trunk directory using svn mkdir…
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SVN inside another SVN

I have simple project that is in SVN and everything works fine. I want to use code from another SVN server in folder inside this simple project. How can I do this? I want to have the ability to update code from this "other" SVN server later on. svn…
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How do I merge two svn branches?

I have two svn branches checked out, "b1" and "b2". I would like to merge all of my commits from the "b1" branch onto the "b2" branch. I have tried something like svn merge -r HEAD:HEAD b1 b2 but it does nothing. I am sure I have this command…
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Search for large checkins in a subversion repository

In the past people have checked in massive files to our subversion repository and later regretted it. To fix it, they just deleted the directory and made another checkin (leaving the massive files in the repository's history). Since these massive…
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How can I ignore a Subversion commit hook?

I'm an administrator for a legacy Subversion implementation. We have a couple of gnarly commit hooks that I need to temporarily ignore (to allow me to fixup some things in the repo). Is there any way to ignore the commit hook? on a per-command…
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SVN Novice : Setting up new repo

I am a novice when it comes to using SVN on a command line. Previously I had done everything through a client. I have created a new repository on my server like this: %svnadmin create myrepo However when I examine it, the trunk branches and tags…
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subversion - how to tell the format of an existing repository

Is there a way to tell the format of an svn repo on disk, without knowing how it was created? Possibly from the format or db/format files? This question has lots of useful info about the different contents of those files, but there's no answer to…
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Which HTTP methods does Subversion use?

Our company's proxy server does not allow some HTTP methods which are used by Subversion's http protocol. As I will contact our IT support to enable them, I wonder what the full list of those methods is? Are there any other methods (besides the…
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