Revision as of 16:50, 14 March 2012

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• Subversion clients work with .svn directories - don't remove them.
• Mind the version of the client (currently, 1.5, 1.6).

Repositories

• http://hcl.ucd.ie/repos/project_name - read only
• https://hcl.ucd.ie/repos/project_name - authenticated user access

To submit

• Software sources: models, code, resource files
• Documentation sources: texts, diagrams, data
• Configuration files
• Test sourses: code, input data

Not to submit

• Binaries: object files, libraries, executables
• Built documentation: html, pdf
• Personal settings: Eclipse projects, ...
• Test output

Subversion for Users

A good linux client: RapidSVN.

RapidSVN, Gforge & passwords

Problem: RapidSVN doesn't directly support svn over ssh and so doesn't remember ssh passwords. And gforge.ucd.ie appares not to support passwordless authentication with publickey. 

Solution: Use sshpass to remember password.

Note: this method involves having your gforge password in plain text, and so is a potential security risk - it should be different to other passwords etc.

Install sshpass >=1.05 (note current ubuntu usese version 1.04 which just hangs - so install from sources or Ubuntu 12.4)

edit ~/.subversion/config, in [tunnels] section add the line:

gforge = sshpass -f{path to file holding password} ssh -o PubkeyAuthentication=no -o ControlMaster=no 

Then check out with:

svn checkout svn+gforge://<user>@gforge.ucd.ie/var/lib/gforge/chroot/scmrepos/svn/fupermod/trunk fupermod 

(where previously it was: svn checkout svn+ssh)