Articles from March 2007
Posted by Guido Haarmans on March 30, 2007
I wanted to share something from our March openCollabNet Technical Newsletter. If you do not get our newsletter yet, sign up for openCollabNet. It only takes a minute. To keep the size of the repository as small as possible, Subversion uses deltification, also called "deltified storage". Deltification is the encoding of a chunk of data [...]
Categories: Subversion Server
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Tags: collabnet, open-source, openCollabNet, Programming, Revision Control, SCM, Software Configuration Management, software development, subversion, version control
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Posted by Jeremy Whitlock on March 28, 2007
This blog entry is now obsolete. A newer, more in-depth version is available here: Subversion with Apache and LDAP: Updated More and more companies are using directory services for housing their user credentials and information. Example directory services are Active Directory, eDirectory and OpenLDAP. How does this relate to Subversion? Well, in the [...]
Categories: Administration
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Posted by Guido Haarmans on March 23, 2007
On Wednesday CM Crossroads and CollabNet hosted a webinar: Subversion in the Enterprise, presented by C. Michael Pilato and Bob Jenkins from CollabNet plus Terrence Cordes, SCM manager at Reuters. Terry gave some great insights into deploying Subversion across global teams; I’ll post a link to a recording of this webinar here soon. Because the [...]
Categories: Subversion Client
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Posted by C. Michael Pilato on March 22, 2007
A recent first-time attempt at using Subversion’s path-based authorization module turned out to be less trivial than I’d planned because I was trying to use it with a repository that allowed anonymous read access. Things went well at first — I did some copying and pasting of sample httpd.conf directives and authz file contents from [...]
Categories: Subversion Server
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Posted by Mark Phippard on March 16, 2007
A very common question asked on the Subversion mailing list is “How can I see the differences between two tags?” Of course there are a lot of variants of this question such as what are the differences between trunk and a branch or two branches etc. The person asking this question is almost always aware [...]
Categories: Subversion Client
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Posted by Mark Phippard on March 12, 2007
If you are going to run a Subversion server on Windows, you want it to run as a service. Doing so allows you to ensure the server is started automatically when the server reboots, and let’s face it, we have all had to reboot a Windows server once or twice. Running as a service has [...]
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