Foreign Repository Copies

Subversion
Posted by C. Michael Pilato
June 28, 2013

Some time ago, I wrote in this space about some new functionality that I had managed to work into Subversion — the ability to merge changes into a working copy from a so-called “foreign repository” (that is, a different repository than the one reflected by the working copy). I touted the feature as a lovely alternative way to manage vendor branches. I admit that I may have glossed over the details a bit in that post, but the idea seemed simple enough: import a baseline copy of the third-party codebase into your repository, and thereafter merge the changes made by … LEARN MORE »

Repository Dictated Configuration — Part 3 of 3: Global Ignores

Subversion
Posted by pburba
June 26, 2013

Global Ignores Welcome to the last topic in my three part series on repository dictated configuration (RDC). In part 2 we talked about the new svn:auto-props property. Today we’ll discuss the other new inherited property that involves RDC, svn:global-ignores. Ignoring Unversioned Items Before 1.8 Once again, this is just a quick refresher, if none of this sounds familiar, then give this section of the Version Control with Subversion book a quick read. Up until 1.7 there were two ways to prevent the svn add and import subcommands from adding certain items we didn’t want to place under version control (as … LEARN MORE »

Repository Dictated Configuration — Part 2 of 3: Autoprops

Subversion
Posted by pburba
June 25, 2013

Automatic Properties In part 1 I talked about the new inheritable properties feature in Subversion 1.8. I promised that this feature would pave the way for repository dictated configuration (RDC). Today I’ll show you the first part of 1.8′s RDC related features, the new svn:auto-props property. Wait…What is RDC Exactly? Subversion provides an extensive set of user configurable options which control various aspects of a Subversion client’s operations. For repositories with only a small handful of committers in the same location, manually synchronizing these configurations is probably not too difficult. For larger and/or distributed groups however, ensuring that everyone has … LEARN MORE »

Subversion Hackathon Berlin 2013 Wrap-up

Subversion
Posted by C. Michael Pilato
June 24, 2013

The jetlag has worn off; the clothes have been unpacked from suitcases, washed, and restored to their proper places in my closet and drawers; the AC converters stuffed back into one of the many miscellaneous electronics bins in my office; and life has resumed for me on my typical side of the Atlantic Ocean. After flying back from the Subversion Hackathon in Berlin, breezing through uncharacteristically fast Passport Control and Customs lines at Charlotte-Douglas International Airport, arriving in my hometown of Harrisburg, NC, and enjoying a lovely Father’s Day weekend with my immediate and extended families, last Monday began a … LEARN MORE »

Repository Dictated Configuration — Part 1 of 3: Inheritable Properties

Subversion
Posted by pburba
June 24, 2013

Bait-and-switch warning: Despite the title, I won’t talk about repository dictated configuration (RDC) today at any great length. Rather, I’ll talk about the new inherited properties feature, which RDC is built upon, in the hope that it will provide a more complete understanding. In part 2, I’ll move on to the details of RDC proper. Property Inheritance Even the most casual user of Subversion is likely familiar with versioned properties. These name:value pairs of metadata are assigned to files or directories. Some (those properties whose names begin with “svn:“) are attributed special meaning by, and trigger specific behaviors in, Subversion … LEARN MORE »

Subversion Edge 4.0 Released

Subversion
Posted by Mark Phippard
June 19, 2013

Hopefully you saw Mike’s post yesterday about the release of Subversion 1.8. Congratulations to the Subversion team on the new release. Today I am pleased to announce the release of Subversion Edge 4.0. This is the release that delivers Subversion 1.8 to your servers so that you can take advantage of the new features offered by Subversion on the server. We are also taking this opportunity to upgrade our Apache HTTP Server stack from 2.2 to 2.4. This will allow you to get the most out of your Subversion 1.8 server as it benefits from some of the fixes and … LEARN MORE »

Apache Subversion 1.8.0 Released

Subversion
Posted by C. Michael Pilato
June 18, 2013

The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) today announced the release of Apache™ Subversion® 1.8.0, which is the culmination of many months of design and development effort by a medium-sized team of committers scattered globally. As a CollabNet employee with over twelve years invested into the Subversion project myself, milestones such as this in the life of the project that CollabNet originally launched and in which myself and several of my CollabNet colleagues continue to contribute are always neat to witness. For those of us who’ve been working daily on the stabilization of the release — fixing minor buglets, reviewing the fixes … LEARN MORE »

More Tips on Subversion

Subversion
Posted by Vishwajyoti Bhattacharjee
April 29, 2013

In my last post I had shared a few tips on subversion addressing issues that I felt were challenging. To add to that list I would like to share a few more. One of the most common issues that I had encountered (while working with subversion and TortoiseSVN) is that the working copies stop displaying the shell overlays (icons), and sometimes a few icons may appear and the other icons might not. The Windows explorer sometimes ignores refresh notifications. The reason behind such behavior is too many application notifications that can jam TortoiseSVN. So to avoid this, the explorer sometimes ignores … LEARN MORE »

Tips on Subversion

Subversion
Posted by Vishwajyoti Bhattacharjee
April 5, 2013

I recently had to work on multiple issues simultaneously. After resolving the first issue I realized that I had committed the changes to a wrong branch. My challenge was to remove these changes from the code before further damage happens and that too in a quick time. I had few options in mind to resolve the situation; I can either remove all my changes in my next commit or revert back my mistaken commit. The best possible way I felt was to go with my second option i.e. undo my mistaken commit. Here are some tips on subversion to illustrate … LEARN MORE »

New Subversion Release Includes Several Security Fixes

Subversion
Posted by Mark Phippard
April 5, 2013

Apache Subversion 1.7.9 and 1.6.21 have been released. Among the normal set of bug fixes in the release are several fixes for security vulnerabilities. A list of all of the vulnerabilities and their details are available on the Subversion security page: http://subversion.apache.org/security/ I would encourage you to read the details of each vulnerability so that you can assess the risk for your environment. My take on these items is that they are all on the Low/Medium end of the spectrum. There are not any of the higher risk vulnerabilities such as arbitrary code execution or privilege escalation included. Generally speaking, … LEARN MORE »