Subversion how-to for NorStore¶
How it works¶
NorStore uses the svnserve server solution to take local svn repositories online.
On the NorStore node noresg.norstore.no, a svnmerge demon is running as a background process. The demon serves repositories that are stored in NorStore’s project work space in /projects/NS2345K/svn. The svn repositories each receive an URL of form svn://noresg.norstore.no/<repository name>
Prerequisites¶
To create and manage a repository, you need a user account at NorStore which is member of the ns2345k project.
The creator of a repository has the full flexibility to grant remote read/write access to external users. Once the repository is create, the use of the repository does not require a NorStore account. The repository creator can define svn users (consisting of a user-name with corresponding password) which in general have no relation to NorStore user accounts.
To start and stop the svn server, your NorStore user must in addition have access to noresg.norstore.no. Currently, this group contains following people: Alf Grini, Ingo Bethke, Thierry Toutain and Martin King.
Start/stop server¶
Log on to noresg.norstore.no via ssh.
To take all svn repositories online, do
`` svnserve -d -r /projects/NS2345K/svn –log-file /projects/NS2345K/svn/svnserve.log –pid-file /projects/NS2345K/svn/svnserve.pid``
An svnserve demon has now been started as a background process on noresg.norstore.no. The process id is logged in /projects/NS2345K/svn/svnserve.pid.
To take all repositories offline again, do
:literal:` kill cat /projects/NS2345K/svn/svnserve.pid`
Creating a new repository¶
Log on to norstore.uio.no via ssh.
Change directory to /projects/NS2345K/svn.
Create a new svn repository with
`` svnadmin create testrepo``
where testrepo is to be replaced with the repository name.
The new repository is now set up in /projects/NS2345K/svn/testrepo
Customizing access rights¶
Edit testrepo/conf/svnserve.conf for general customisation of access rights. Important: Make sure to remove all leading blanks when activating an option.
The default is read/write access for authenticated users and no access for anonymous.
To limited access to read for authenticated users, change
`` # auth-access = write``
to
`` auth-access = read ``
To grant anonymous read, change
`` # anon-access = none ``
to
The users of the repository are defined in testrepo/conf/passwd with user name and password, e.g.
The user customisation is activated in svnserve.conf by uncommenting
`` # password-db = passwd``
to
`` password-db = passwd``
Further fine tuning of access rights can be done in testrepo/conf/authz. E.g.,
gives harry read/write access but limits the access of guestuser to read-only. The authz customisation is activated in svnserve.conf by uncommenting
`` # authz-db = authz``
to
Remote access¶
After taking the repository online, the URL of the repository testrepo is svn://noresg.norstore.no/testrepo
To checkout the repository, do
\ ```svn://noresg.norstore.no/testrepo <svn://noresg.norstore.no/testrepo>`__Change directory to testrepo
Create a dummy file and mark it for adding
Commit the repository