Subversion for dummies

Basic steps to install Subversion on any Red Hat based linux flavor, using FSFS file system storage.

# yum install subversión
# adduser svn
# su svn
# mkdir /repos
(svn)$ svnadmin create --fs-type fsfs /repos

By the way, make sure that the user svn owns /repos directory and that everybody has write permissions on it:

# chown -R svn:svn /repos
# chmod a+w -R /repos 

Afterwards, access the repository through your ssh account with svn+ssh://127.0.0.1/repos.

Backup a repository

To backup a repository

# svnadmin dump /path/repository > /backup/repository.dump

Then to recover a backed up repository

# svnadmin load /path/repository < repository.dump

Polarion Subversive

This is a plug-in for Eclipse. To install it, define a new site for this feature, on Software Updates, define a new Remote Site:

• Name: Polarion Subversive
• URL: http://www.polarion.org/projects/subversive/download/1.1/update-site/

Then follow the wizard, and select the options Subversive and Subversive Clients to install.

Links

• http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.1/index.html
• http://www.1x4x9.info/files/subversion/html/online-chunked/index.html