Organizing a Source Code Repository for Web Development
When you develop applications, you may use a revision control system like Subversion. If you are new at it, using revision control for web development may feel foreign at first, and understandably so;...
View ArticleLeave It To Apple To Bring Revision Control To The Masses
On August 7, 2006, Apple previewed Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard at the WWDC. As usual, some new features received a lot of excitement whereas some received criticism. Time Machine, Apple's automated backup...
View ArticleProper Placement of mod_dav_svn
When installing a configuring Subversion to work through Apache, you might get an error like this when attempting to start up httpd: Cannot load /etc/httpd/modules/mod_dav_svn.so into server:...
View ArticleConfiguring Subversion for HTTP Access Behind Proxy
For the life of me, I couldn't figure out why I was unable to checkout from my Subversion repository while I was at work. It worked while I was at home (where my Subversion server is) just a few days...
View ArticleUpgrading Subversion Requires a Bindings Update for Trac!
My Subversion/Trac server was at Trac v0.9.6 and Subversion v1.3.x because those were the latest stable releases when I set up the server. I decided it would be relatively quick and painless to at...
View ArticleHow to Fix 301 Error for Subversion Checkouts
My Linux box was hosting Subversion with no problem. I added a new repository to the several that were already present, and when I checked it out, it said, "301 Moved Permanently". Excuse me? As it...
View ArticleCombining Repositories Into One Large Repository
I keep all my projects in separate Subversion repositories. I did this because it feels a lot cleaner this way, there is less risk in the event of repository corruption, and I use corresponding Trac...
View ArticleSeparating a Large Repository
A few months ago, I posted an article about combining multiple Subversion repositories into one large repository. Some folks have expressed an interest in doing the opposite--separating one large...
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