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Public SVN Access

By barneyb on July 11, 2007

To this point I've kept all my personal projects in a private SVN repository, but Joe wanted access to the source of my bicycle dashboard, so I opened it up to anonymous read access at https://ssl.barneyb.com/svn/barneyb/bicycle_dashboard/.  I'll probably end up opening a few other projects as well (like my award winning schema tool, which has some major updates close to release), so stay tuned.

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9 responses to “Public SVN Access”

  1. Sean Corfield
    Sean Corfield
    July 12, 2007 at 12:12 am |

    Any thoughts on changing your projects to Apache Source License 2.0 so that they can be used more easily by people working in corporates?

  2. barneyb
    barneyb
    July 12, 2007 at 6:40 am |

    The schema tool and transaction advice already are Apache licensed. I haven't formally licensed the bicycle app yet, but it'll probably follow suit.

  3. Ajeet
    Ajeet
    December 20, 2007 at 3:24 am |

    Hello,
    I have one issue being facing and hope you will defntly help me in this regard.I want to know how can one access public SVN through the browser?I mean if the path is https://sitename/../.. etc etc…How will I edit a file in that.I am providing the credential and successfullly able to browse the directory but how can i edit the one file in that.
    Hope you will help me in this reagrds.

  4. barneyb
    barneyb
    December 20, 2007 at 9:01 am |

    Ajeet,

    Browser-based SVN access is read-only; there's no way to edit files, only view them. SVN uses HTTP (really the WebDAV extensions) as a network layer, so you use the same URL with a real client as you do with the browser.

    However, my SVN repositories are not anonymously writable (for obvious reasons), so whatever client you use (browser or otherwise), you can only read them. If you have a mutable repository, any real client (Subclipse, TortoiseSVN, etc.) will let you commit changes to them.

  5. Ajeet
    Ajeet
    December 20, 2007 at 9:02 pm |

    Thanks for the quick reply…
    I have tortiose SVN running in the Windows machine but when I try to provide the URL through repository browser I dint see username and passwd asking..So did it fail to open the repo structure…Can you tell me how can I get that window..or I need to do some settings on that…I tried the alternative way around.I created one folder on D: and right clicked and created the repository.Next I tried to import the whole project in that folder..but then it seemd useless becoz I need to only add 1 file to a folder…why shud I consume the whole space.anyway I tried but the same issue.
    Plz Help me in this regard.I am completely stuck!!!!

  6. barneyb
    barneyb
    December 20, 2007 at 9:13 pm |

    Ajeet,

    If you're looking for a basic Subversion tutorial, there are myriad options available online. If you want a TortoiseSVN specific resource, they have some of those available on their website.

    If a user/pass is required, you should be prompted for one automatically. Beyond that, I'd recommend reading up on some docs/manuals.

  7. Alexander Groß
    Alexander Groß
    February 28, 2008 at 4:08 pm |

    Barney,

    I've found your post while I was looking for the exact same solution: I want to have one public folder in my repo (anoymous reads, authenticated writes) but was fighting with Apache's config the whole day and didn't get it working. Can you please send me the relevant config entries for Apache and the svnaccess file?

    Thanks, Alex

  8. barneyb
    barneyb
    February 28, 2008 at 4:29 pm |

    Alex,

    I posted the relevant bits in a new post, available here: http://www.barneyb.com/barneyblog/2008/02/28/read-only-and-read-write-svn-repositories/

  9. Alexander Groß
    Alexander Groß
    February 28, 2008 at 5:34 pm |

    Thanks, works like a charm now!