On 9/10/2012 10:43 AM, John Maher wrote:
Thanks again, I'm learning.
I appreciate the time put in to help me and I really don't want to
cost you more time, so I have a couple of yes/no questions.
So the only time to use svnadmin create without having a dedicated
server would be a single user (like me at home)?
At some level, svnadmin create will be called once per repository.
Whether that is done through a GUI-based interface or from the command
line is immaterial. This is the first step in setting up a repository,
and it has to be on the machine that will serve the repository.
It may be helpful to think of Subversion as a program package that runs
on a server. If you are a single user working on a non-networked
machine, then your local machine can be a Subversion server by reading
the repository directly, using the "file://" protocol. This protocol
has major problems with multiple (and sometimes even remote) access, so
it is safely run only on the machine where the files reside and only by
one user at a time. If you need to access a repository on another
machine, particularly if multiple users will be accessing the
repository, you need some kind of server process running on that machine
to manage internal operations safely and arbitrate between simultaneous
requests. Subversion includes the "svnserve" program to serve files
using the "svn://" protocol and has code that allows Apache HTTPD to
serve files using the "http://"; or "https://"; protocol.
Personally, my repositories are all served using Apache HTTPD. I have
multiple machines, and although it is unlikely that I would ever commit
code from two different machines at the same time, the ease of use for
the "file://" protocol just wasn't worth the risk. I host some Web sites
too, and it was easier for me to adapt my HTTPD setup knowledge than to
learn how to configure svnserve. Your mileage may vary.
As for as the dll extensions, those are not a concern. I am talking
about ide setting files. And if we have a project made up of 44
repositories I need to enter the command 44 times, no eaiser way, right?
Subversion does not provide repository administration or sandbox
configuration tools; it provides a repository hosting mechanism. What
you are asking for is not part of Subversion, so yes you need to enter
the command 44 times.
Scripting languages are your friends here. Write one script to invoke
the configuration commands for a single repository, then another to
invoke the first script for every repository in a list. This has
multiple benefits:
1) You can call the first script each time you add a new repository,
rather than type in the commands all over again.
2) Automation of this kind allows you to configure all of your
repositories identically.
3) The scripts document the configuration you used (rather than scraps
of paper somewhere, or the memory of an employee who may leave).
--
David Chapman dcchap...@acm.org
Chapman Consulting -- San Jose, CA
Software Development Done Right.
www.chapman-consulting-sj.com
