Subversion versioning system

For software development we have a subversion server available. The self-service webinterface can be reached via:

https://subversion.cs.uu.nl/

Here you can create and manage your own repositories, including read and commit rights, watchers. Browsing via webinterface and viewvc is also supported. Access via the svn command-line can be done like

svn command https://subversion.cs.uu.nl/repos/your-repository/

This system uses your Unix (ldap) login and password or guest accounts. Guest accounts and project repositories can be requested via e-mail to svn-admin@cs.uu.nl.

Note that the standard unix subversion client before version 1.6 stores your password in plain text below $HOME/.subversion/auth/svn.simple. To disable this, change $HOME/.subversion/config to:

### Section for authentication and authorization customizations.
[auth]
### Set store-passwords to 'no' to avoid storing passwords in the
### auth/ area of your config directory.  It defaults to 'yes'.
### Note that this option only prevents saving of *new* passwords;
### it doesn't invalidate existing passwords.  (To do that, remove
### the cache files by hand as described in the Subversion book.)
store-passwords = no

Windows subversion client

Windows users will probably enjoy tortoisesvn which is a windows shell extension implementing subversion.

MacOSX subversion client

Mac OS X users will probably enjoy scplugin, a plugin to integrate subversion into the Mac OS X Finder.

Relocating subversion repositories

Sample session:

• Check out a repository from subversion.cs.uu.nl:

  koos@kolham:~$ svn co https://subversion.cs.uu.nl/repos/staff.koos.testmigrate
  Error validating server certificate for 'https://subversion.cs.uu.nl:443':
   - The certificate is not issued by a trusted authority. Use the
     fingerprint to validate the certificate manually!
  Certificate information:
   - Hostname: subversion.cs.uu.nl
   - Valid: from Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT until Mon, 19 Nov 2012 23:59:59 GMT
   - Issuer: TERENA, NL
   - Fingerprint: a6:a0:13:f5:58:20:44:17:35:70:c9:72:8f:d8:6b:93:0d:21:fb:21
  (R)eject or accept (t)emporarily? t
  Authentication realm: <https://subversion.cs.uu.nl:443> Subversion repository
  Password for 'koos': 
  Checked out revision 0.
  koos@kolham:~$ cd staff.koos.testmigrate/
  

• Use it:

  koos@kolham:~/staff.koos.testmigrate$ vim test.c
  koos@kolham:~/staff.koos.testmigrate$ svn add test.c
  A         test.c
  koos@kolham:~/staff.koos.testmigrate$ svn commit
  Error validating server certificate for 'https://subversion.cs.uu.nl:443':
   - The certificate is not issued by a trusted authority. Use the
     fingerprint to validate the certificate manually!
  Certificate information:
   - Hostname: subversion.cs.uu.nl
   - Valid: from Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT until Mon, 19 Nov 2012 23:59:59 GMT
   - Issuer: TERENA, NL
   - Fingerprint: a6:a0:13:f5:58:20:44:17:35:70:c9:72:8f:d8:6b:93:0d:21:fb:21
  (R)eject or accept (t)emporarily? t
  Authentication realm: <https://subversion.cs.uu.nl:443> Subversion repository
  Password for 'koos': 
  Adding         test.c
  Transmitting file data .
  Committed revision 1.
  

• Migrate the repository (using svn dump on https://subversion.cs.uu.nl/ and svn load on https://svn.science.uu.nl/) or the svn admin did this for you
• Rename your checked-out copy locally (optional step):

  koos@kolham:~/staff.koos.testmigrate$ cd ..
  koos@kolham:~$ mv staff.koos.testmigrate edu.hout0101.testmigrate
  

• Switch the location of the repository:

  koos@kolham:~$ cd edu.hout0101.testmigrate/
  koos@kolham:~/edu.hout0101.testmigrate$ svn switch --relocate https://subversion.cs.uu.nl/repos/staff.koos.testmigrate \
  https://svn.science.uu.nl/repos/edu.hout0101.testmigrate
  Error validating server certificate for 'https://svn.science.uu.nl:443':
   - The certificate is not issued by a trusted authority. Use the
     fingerprint to validate the certificate manually!
  Certificate information:
   - Hostname: svn.science.uu.nl
   - Valid: from Mon, 26 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMT until Thu, 25 Jul 2013 23:59:59 GMT
   - Issuer: TERENA, NL
   - Fingerprint: b0:63:7e:c2:6c:cd:0e:b0:08:94:dc:88:cb:ee:8c:92:73:35:b4:71
  (R)eject or accept (t)emporarily? t
  Authentication realm: <https://svn.science.uu.nl:443> Subversion repository
  Password for 'koos': 
  Authentication realm: <https://svn.science.uu.nl:443> Subversion repository
  Username: hout0101
  Password for 'hout0101': 
  

  This will give an error when you're not switching to a migrated version of the same repository, this is your safety check.
• Continue using the new repository:

  koos@kolham:~/edu.hout0101.testmigrate$ svn update
  Error validating server certificate for 'https://svn.science.uu.nl:443':
   - The certificate is not issued by a trusted authority. Use the
     fingerprint to validate the certificate manually!
  Certificate information:
   - Hostname: svn.science.uu.nl
   - Valid: from Mon, 26 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMT until Thu, 25 Jul 2013 23:59:59 GMT
   - Issuer: TERENA, NL
   - Fingerprint: b0:63:7e:c2:6c:cd:0e:b0:08:94:dc:88:cb:ee:8c:92:73:35:b4:71
  (R)eject or accept (t)emporarily? t
  Authentication realm: <https://svn.science.uu.nl:443> Subversion repository
  Password for 'koos': 
  Authentication realm: <https://svn.science.uu.nl:443> Subversion repository
  Username: hout0101
  Password for 'hout0101': 
  At revision 1.
  

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