Tag: Subversion
USVN with CentOS 5
If you are looking for a Subversion web interface, chanes are you come across USVN (User-friendly SVN). I first used it in August 2009 during a complex proof-of-concept (PoC). The current version at the time was 0.7.2 and it was of great help. Nevertheless there were a few things missing, esp. LDAP support. So I [...]
Posted: March 21st, 2010 under Technical Stuff.
Tags: CentOS, RedHat, RHEL, Subversion, SVN, USVN, VCS
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Use CollabNet Subversion with Regular Apache
CollabNet are providing up-to-date binary packages of Subversion for many platforms. In my case this is CentOS 5, which by itself only has a rather dated version of Subversion. So I downloaded and installed the client, server and extras packages from CollabNet. The server package comes with a bundled Apache and a pretty nice installation [...]
Posted: March 11th, 2010 under Technical Stuff.
Tags: Apache, CentOS, CollabNet, LD_LIBRARY_PATH, RedHat, RHEL, Subversion, SVN, VCS
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Why Subversion’s “svn:externals” is bad
Subversion has a means to create “symlinks” within the tree of a project with the “svn:externals” property. This is bad because it creates a lock-in and mixes version control and dependency management.
Posted: November 20th, 2009 under Technical Stuff.
Tags: Anti-pattern, Dependency Management, Ivy, Maven, Subversion, VCS
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