This community article was last revised on 23rd July 2021.
WEDOS Disk offers hosting one or more Subversion repository.
Basic information and parameters:
- You can create any number of repository
- You can create any number of users and set access rights to an individual repository(read/write)
- space occupied by all the repository is taken from the WEDOS disk space (data volume and number of files)
- number of commits or data transfers are not limited
- repository is accessible via SVN protocol, communication is encrypted, SVN client must support SASL authentication and encryption, unencrypted communication is not supported
- for repository can be activated sending of e-mail notifications about commits
This is only a Subversion repository hosting, this is not versioning of files that you store in space WEDOS Disk. This is possible if you connect the disk space via a protocol as a shared disk and on it, you create a Subversion working copy.
NOTICE! At this service, we do not offer support for Subversion about questions: what it is, how it works, for what it is used, how it is used… user must be informed in advance, in this direction we do not provide any consultations. We are solving all technical problems with the operation of the service from our side only.
Subversion repository
Repository is formed within a particular service WEDOS Disk. More repository in one service WEDOS Disk shares SVN users (Attention, this is not a user that connects to the disc space via FTP, SMB or rsync).
Repository and users are created and managed in the customer center WEDOS when you open the details of a particular service WEDOS Disk.
Each repository and each user have their name and description. Name of repository and user names can only contain large and small letters of the alphabet, digits, dash, and underscore.
Repository data backup is daily in case of failure or data loss on our side. Backups are not intended to be renewed at the customer’s request. Customers should perform backups by themselves.
Access to the repository
The repository is accessible via SVN protocol only, via URL address like this svn://server/repository. A specific URL address can be found in the detail of a particular repository. To access you can either use the Subversion command-line client program TortoiseSVN for Windows or any other software that supports this protocol.
Client programs must support SASL authentication and encryption, another method of encryption or login is not available. SASL is part of Subversion and TortoiseSVN client from version 1.6. Version 1.5 or less will not work. In Linux, it is usually necessary to install the package cyrus-sasl-md5 (and if you have compiled Subversion by yourself, you must use option –with-sasl).
Repository files are not accessible through other protocols.
E-mail notification about commits
In particular repository settings can be activated sending of e-mail notification about commits. One or more email addresses (separated by commas).
After any commit is sent a report to the e-mail addresses containing details of the commit (author, the changes comment).
Repository synchronization
Subversion includes a utility svnsync, through which you can move content of the repository, including a complete history, to a different repository and then synchronize changes. This tool can also be used if you want to move an existing repository to another server, especially if you want to move an existing repository to our service WEDOS Disk.
Now we can show you how to move the existing repository to us. Everything happens on the command line, the procedure is the same for Linux and Windows. In Windows, you need to find the directory containing the file svnsync.exe and execute commands in it.
First, create a new repository in the customer center. Repository to which you want to synchronize must be empty.
In the repository detail check option to allow additional changes to revision properties (pre-revprop-change hook).Enable writing to a user which will perform synchronization. Then click the update button, to take effect of the repository changes on the server.
In the parameters of the program, svnsync shall be indicated target repository URL and source repository URL. URL address of the repository at our service WEDOS Disk can be found in customer center in detail of a particular repository.
First, we need to initialize a target repository for synchronization:
svnsync init svn://cilovy-server/cilova-repo svn://zdrojovy-server/zdrojova-repo
And then we can run the synchronization. Tool always compares the numbers and load differences of the latest revision from the source to the target (actually overwrites commits).
svnsync sync svn://cilovy-server/cilova-repo svn://zdrojovy-server/zdrojova-repo
If you encounter an error, check the article errors when working with repository.
For more information, see the Subversion documentation.
Errors
Cannot negotiate authentication mechanism
You are using client does not support SASL authentication. You must have a client that uses Subversion version 1.6 and higher and on Linux must be installed package cyrus-sasl-md5. If you compile Subversion on Linux by yourself, you must use option –with-sasl.
Revprop change blocked by pre-revprop-change hook
You are trying to make additional changes of the properties but it is forbidden for this repository. This feature must be enabled in the Customer Center in repository detail, by the choice allow additional changes to revision properties (pre-revprop-change hook).