[wp-hackers] Kinda OT: Setting up a SVN server under Windows

[DD32]

The trick is, SVN requires 3 (Yes, three) forward slashes after the  
protocol.

file:///D:/blahblah

AFAIK its because it treats windows paths as linux paths: file://  /D:  
/blah /blah

On Thu, 06 Nov 2008 20:15:29 +1100, Viper007Bond <viper at viper007bond.com>  
wrote:

> Oh, I didn't realize you could do file://. I made a test rebo via  
> "svnadmin
> create blah", but couldn't figure out how to access it.
>
> While that puts me on the right path though, it still doesn't want to  
> work:
> http://pic.phyrefile.com/v/vi/viper007bond/2008/11/06/svnerror.png
>
> On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 9:10 PM, DD32 <wordpress at dd32.id.au> wrote:
>
>> And you dont even need to run svnserve if you only need local access.
>>
>> I personally run svnserve on my VPS host, means i've got a remote
>> svn://host/ access
>> However, for most things, I simply set my SVN client to use a local
>> repository,
>> eg: file:///c:/svn/my-plugin-2/
>>
>> Its much simpler, means you dont have an extra process running when its  
>> not
>> needed, and is just as useable as a remote svn host for most stuff.
>>
>> to create the above repo, all i'd do is a "svn create  
>> c:/svn/my-plugin-2/"
>> and thats it.
>>
>> Of course, If you want access to SVN from away from your computer,  
>> svnserve
>> is probably the best method
>>
>>
>>
>> On Thu, 06 Nov 2008 15:41:11 +1100, Daniel Torreblanca <
>> regulatethis at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>  If you don't have a good reason for serving SVN through Apache, I'd
>>> say stick with svnserve. Running through Apache is helpful if you've
>>> got a fancy authentican scheme (LDAP and such), but performance-wise
>>> its worse than svnserve and it doesn't offer any other real benefit. I
>>> don't have much experience running svn on windows, but if you're more
>>> specific about any problems you're running into, how far you've gotten
>>> so far and/or what it is that you actually want to do I'd be glad to
>>> help.
>>>
>>> On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 11:28 PM, Viper007Bond <viper at viper007bond.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Sorry for the kinda OT thread, I'm sure you guys are a lot smarter  
>>>> than
>>>> me
>>>> when it comes to these things.
>>>>
>>>> I'm currently using XAMPP for my localhost development install.  
>>>> However
>>>> I'd
>>>> like to start using SVN to record my changes (for example to custom
>>>> themes).
>>>> However the guides I've found via Google haven't helped me much. I've
>>>> also
>>>> read something about integrating it with Apache 2.2.x, but I'm so
>>>> confused.
>>>>
>>>> Anyone happen to have a good link to a nice guide?
>>>>
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