- First of all, make sure that Subversion is installed. In a prompt, type:
svn
You sholid get something like this as a response:Type 'svn help' for usage.
If the command is not recognized, you’ll have to install the packages for your distribution. If you run a reasonably recent release of Fedora Core, you should be able to just type:yum install subversion
- Next, you’ll have to make sure that Subversion is automatically launched on boot. How to accomplish this task depends on your operating system and distribution. If you run Fedora Core, a quick and dirty way is to locate the file
/etc/rc.d/rc.local
(create it if it does not exist) and add the following:svnserve -d
If you want to run the server as a user other than root, which you may consider for security reasons, please consult the documentation for your operating system. Server security is beyond the scope of this document. - Now you’ll have to decide which user should own the repository. If you want, you can create a dedicated user. Log in as that user and type the following (substitute
johndoe
for the user,johnsfiles
for the name of the repository that you want to create, and/home/johndoe
for the intended parent directory):cd /home/johndoe
svnadmin create johnsfiles
mkdir files
mkdir files/branches
mkdir files/tags
mkdir files/trunk
svn import files file:///home/johndoe/johnsfiles -m “Imported the root directories.”
mv johnsfiles/conf/svnserve.conf johnsfiles/conf/svnserve.conf.original - Create the file
johnsfiles/conf/svnserve.conf
and add the following:[general]:
password-db = users.conf
realm = John Doe’s File Repository
anon-access = none
auth-access = write - Then create the file
johnsfiles/conf/users.conf
and add (substitute12345
for the desired password):[users]
johndoe = 12345 - If you use a router and want people from outside of your local network to have access to the repository, you’ll have to configure the router to forward port 3690 (TCP and UDP) to the same port on your host.
- Now we’ll switch to Windows. Make sure TortoiseSVN is installed. It requires a reboot following installation, after which additional menu items are visible when right-clicking on folders and files.
- Create a new folder using Explorer, with the name of your choice.
- Open the new folder, and then right-click inside it. Select
SVN Checkout...
. - In the dialog that now opens, enter the following address under
URL of repository:
(exchange192.168.1.2
for the IP address or name of your Unix host):svn://192.168.1.2/home/johndoe/johnsfiles
- Click
OK
. The three special folders branches, tags and trunk should now be created. For the purpose of each, refer to the Subversion documentation. The short version is thattrunk
is where you should normally be working.
trunk
and import them to the repository using the menu items provided by TortoiseSVN. Be sure to explore other menu items as well. If you are familiar with other version control systems, the purpose of many of them is probably fairly obvious to you.I hope this helped