Subversion and svnsync and websvn

Written by Administrator Wednesday, 23 June 2010 11:27

This tutorial shows how to syncronzie your own local repository with a remote repository and sync with it. The result shall be displayed in the websvn GUI. How to add basic security is shown in apache2 and basic security on this web site.

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Time to setup a local repository.

Step 1 Create a local directory to store checked out files.

mkdir /development/localcopy

Step 2 Create a subversion repository.

mkdir /development/repos/

svnadmin create /development/repos/svn

Step 3 Check out (nothing) to localcopy

cd /development/localcopy

svn co file:///development/repos/svn/

Check to see that you have a .svn file in /development/localcopy (then you are home free)

Ok so far what do we got.

We have one local repository (shall be synked) and one place to put our checked out files.

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Time to connect local repository with remote

Let us now sync our local repository with the remote repository. Let us assume our remote repository is https://svn.foo.bar.com/svn. Let us assume that there is a user svnuser and a password there svnpwd.

Do like this. Edit this file

vi /development/repos/svn/hooks/pre-revprop-change.tmpl and make it look like this;

USER="$3"

if [ "$USER" = "svnuser" ]; then exit 0; fi
echo "Only the svnsync user can change revprops" >&2
exit 1

and save it as /development/repos/svn/hooks/pre-revprop-change (that is without file ending)

Go to the repository.

cd /development/repos/svn

svnsync init --username svnuser file:///development/repos/svn/ https://svn.foo.bar.com/svn

This will set up the sync of your local repository.

And now sync;

svnsync sync file:///development/repos/svn/

This might take a while, but in the end your repository will be synchronized.

Time to connect svnweb with local repository

Edit this websvn file.

vi /usr/share/websvn/include/config.php

Add this line.

$config->addRepository('NameToDisplay', 'file:///development/repos/svn');

Crontab job

How do we make svnsync do it regulary, well a crontab job. Let's do it every 30 minutes.

Create script to call from crontab and save it as sync.sh in /development/repository

#!/bin/sh
cd /development/repository
svnsync sync file:///development/repository/svn

chmod file to 755

Do this

crontab -e

add line

*/5 * * * * /development/repository/sync.sh

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