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Subversion with svn+ssh

Fri, 2005-05-20 18:34 — chris

Setting up subversion with svn+ssh access (non-DAV) on unstable.

In migrating from woody with a combination of CVS and a backport of SVN 1.0 I would like to use SVN 1.1 to get the file system backend (fsfs) instead of BerkleyDB.

Repositories will reside in /repository.

Users that use them will be a member of the repository group.

  • Install subversionapt-get install subversion
  • Set up /repository mkdir repository
    chown root.repository /repository
    chmod 775 /repository
  • Create a repositoryumask 002
    newgrp repository
    svnadmin create --fs-type fsfs /repository/name_of_repository
  • Getting svn+ssh to handle permissions gracefully (handling umask)mv /usr/bin/svnserve /usr/bin/svnserve_realThen create a new file /usr/bin/svnserve with the following contents#!/bin/sh

    umask 002
    /usr/bin/svnserve_real "$@"

    This will set umask so that group permissions are OK. The one annoyance is that you will need to repeat this step each time subversion is updated via an apt upgrade. I keep a copy of this script in /usr/bin/svnserve_wrapper
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