[wp-hackers] Kinda OT: Setting up a SVN server under Windows

[Viper007Bond]

DD32 to the rescue as usual. Thanks. ^_^

On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 1:18 AM, DD32 <wordpress at dd32.id.au> wrote:

> The trick is, SVN requires 3 (Yes, three) forward slashes after the
> protocol.
>
> file:///D:/blahblah
>
> AFAIK its because it treats windows paths as linux paths: file://  /D:
> /blah /blah
>
>
> On Thu, 06 Nov 2008 20:15:29 +1100, Viper007Bond <viper at viper007bond.com>
> wrote:
>
>  Oh, I didn't realize you could do file://. I made a test rebo via
>> "svnadmin
>> create blah", but couldn't figure out how to access it.
>>
>> While that puts me on the right path though, it still doesn't want to
>> work:
>> http://pic.phyrefile.com/v/vi/viper007bond/2008/11/06/svnerror.png
>>
>> On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 9:10 PM, DD32 <wordpress at dd32.id.au> wrote:
>>
>>  And you dont even need to run svnserve if you only need local access.
>>>
>>> I personally run svnserve on my VPS host, means i've got a remote
>>> svn://host/ access
>>> However, for most things, I simply set my SVN client to use a local
>>> repository,
>>> eg: file:///c:/svn/my-plugin-2/
>>>
>>> Its much simpler, means you dont have an extra process running when its
>>> not
>>> needed, and is just as useable as a remote svn host for most stuff.
>>>
>>> to create the above repo, all i'd do is a "svn create
>>> c:/svn/my-plugin-2/"
>>> and thats it.
>>>
>>> Of course, If you want access to SVN from away from your computer,
>>> svnserve
>>> is probably the best method
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, 06 Nov 2008 15:41:11 +1100, Daniel Torreblanca <
>>> regulatethis at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>  If you don't have a good reason for serving SVN through Apache, I'd
>>>
>>>> say stick with svnserve. Running through Apache is helpful if you've
>>>> got a fancy authentican scheme (LDAP and such), but performance-wise
>>>> its worse than svnserve and it doesn't offer any other real benefit. I
>>>> don't have much experience running svn on windows, but if you're more
>>>> specific about any problems you're running into, how far you've gotten
>>>> so far and/or what it is that you actually want to do I'd be glad to
>>>> help.
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 11:28 PM, Viper007Bond <viper at viper007bond.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>  Sorry for the kinda OT thread, I'm sure you guys are a lot smarter than
>>>>> me
>>>>> when it comes to these things.
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm currently using XAMPP for my localhost development install. However
>>>>> I'd
>>>>> like to start using SVN to record my changes (for example to custom
>>>>> themes).
>>>>> However the guides I've found via Google haven't helped me much. I've
>>>>> also
>>>>> read something about integrating it with Apache 2.2.x, but I'm so
>>>>> confused.
>>>>>
>>>>> Anyone happen to have a good link to a nice guide?
>>>>>
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