What’s the first part of your Subversion repository URL? If your URL looks like: http://subversion/repos/, then you’re probably going over Port 80. If your URL looks like: https://subversion/repos/, then you’re probably going over Port 443. If your URL looks like: svn://subversion/, then you’re probably going over Port 3690. If your URL looks like: svn+ssh://subversion/repos/, then … Read more
Commit messages are “unversioned properties” and can be changed with the svn propset command, for example $ svn propset –revprop -r 25 svn:log “Journaled about trip to New York.” property ‘svn:log’ set on repository revision ’25’ This is setting the revision property called “svn:log” on revision 25 Configuring subversion to allow revision property changes Because … Read more
If you want the file contents to remain unchanged (meaning that you can’t merely change whitespace as johnstok suggested) you can always change one of the properties on the file. eg. svn propset dummyproperty 1 yourfile svn commit yourfile That will perform a commit without having to change the file. Just make sure that you … Read more
svn help rename Moving/renaming in subversion keeps history intact.
The process is as follows: Establish a working copy of branch B (svn checkout http://branch-b) Merge changes from branch A into working copy of B (svn merge -r 10:HEAD http://branch-a .) Commit (after resolving conflicts) working copy B to branch b (svn commit) Check the man page (help file) for svn merge semantics. It shows … Read more
There is a solution… go to your recycle bin you’ll find there the latest version of the deleted file. Tortoise “throwing” to the recycle bin every file that it revert.
My easy click-by-click instructions (specific to TortoiseSVN) are in Stack Overflow question What is the simplest way to do branching and merging using TortoiseSVN?.
There’s no built-in command for it, so I usually just do something like this: #!/bin/bash # history_of_file # # Outputs the full history of a given file as a sequence of # logentry/diff pairs. The first revision of the file is emitted as # full text since there’s not previous version to compare it to. … Read more
Create a new branch using the svn copy command as follows: $ svn copy svn+ssh://host.example.com/repos/project/trunk \ svn+ssh://host.example.com/repos/project/branches/NAME_OF_BRANCH \ -m “Creating a branch of project”
Add the following text to your authz specifying a user by name for path-based authorization (<reponame> can be the name of any repository). [<reponame>:/branches/calc/bug-142/secret] harry = To give Harry readonly access to the secret folder then do the following. [<reponame>:/branches/calc/bug-142/secret] harry = r These will specifically deny a user from having any less restrictive inherited … Read more