SVN settings

[doomstone]

Hello out there.
I'm having some problems keeping my program source code and school worke files managed.
The reason for this is that i switch alot between computer, my home pc, laptop and school pc.
So i thought that using an svn server might would help me manage my program source code and my school papers. But the truth is that i don't realy know much about svn, and even less how to set it up.
So i where hoping the one of you guys might be able to point me in the right direction.

[dmartin]

My SVN setup is this. First, you should have openssh-server and subversion

sudo apt-get install subversion openssh-server

Then, I create a user and group svn, and place yourself in the group.

sudo adduser svn
sudo addgroup svn
sudo adduser YOUR_USERNAME svn

By adding the user svn, you should have /home/svn now. This is where I suggest placing your repositories. The reason I like to place all my SVN repos in /home/svn is because when I do backups, I only back up /home /etc and /opt. I keep all my "dynamic" content in one of those places. The rest of my system doesn't really need to be backed up.

So, you might create a repo to hold your documents like so:

cd /home/svn
sudo svnadmin create documents

Unfortunately, root now owns that repo, and we don't want that, so:

sudo chown svn:svn /home/svn/documents -R

Now, since you already added yourself to the SVN group, you should have the rights to the repo. Your repo URL is:

svn+ssh://yourserver.com/home/svn/documents/

Of course, ssh must be running before accessing it, so you may need to do this before accessing it the first time:

sudo /etc/init.d/ssh start

Hope that helps.

[dmartin]

I should add, I use a dynamic DNS through ZoneEdit so my server URL stays constant. Otherwise you can use your IP address in the SVN url.

[doomstone]

Thanks for the help, it is working perfect