Comments on: How to set up and use Subversion (SVN) on OS X Leopard

By: Adam Koblentz

Adam Koblentz — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 23:15:09 +0000

I did a view source and you have BRs all over the place, what did you use to make this page? They might account for the line issues.

By: Jason Calleiro

Jason Calleiro — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 19:17:11 +0000

Best svn tutorial i have found for beginners!

By: Nikolaus Heger

Nikolaus Heger — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 10:55:01 +0000

Now the errata got screwed up - oh well.

By: Nikolaus Heger

Nikolaus Heger — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 10:53:16 +0000

PS:

Some of the above commands appear on two lines in the browser but should really be on one. Here’s an errata:
LoadModule dav_svn_module
== 1 ==
/usr/libexec/apache2/mod_dav_svn.so

DAV svn
SVNParentPath /usr/local/svn

== 2 ==
svn import -m “initial import” /Library/WebServer/Documents/svn_default http://localhost/svn/appname

== 3 ==
svn import -m “app import” /Library/WebServer/Documents/appname http://localhost/svn/appname/trunk

By: Nikolaus Heger

Nikolaus Heger — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 08:36:41 +0000

Beautiful, thanks. This worked really well. I am amazed it’s that simple, really.

One thing though: I installed both the svn repository and the checked out project in my home folder. The reason is that your home folder will be preserved when you migrate to a new machine. Stuff that’s hidden in /usr/local/svn will not be migrated by the migration assistant.

I plan on keeping my svn repo for ever and ever, so /Users/masterblaster is a better place for it IMO. No, that’s not really my user name.

By: slackerjax

slackerjax — Mon, 26 May 2008 04:12:42 +0000

Very helpful tutorial. Many thanx! I encountered one gotcha: when setting up the svn.conf file, I wrote out the LoadModule line as 2 lines (as it appeared in my browser), which caused apache to fail on restart (with a helpfully explicit error in console indicating LoadModule requires 2 arguments). Fixed that and it worked perfectly. Thanx again!

By: William

William — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 21:58:44 +0000

Ah there was an extra line, ignore the last bit!

By: William

William — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 21:40:49 +0000

Hey great tutorial.

Just some quesions:

Are steps (Setting up the SVN Repository area on OS X) 2 & (Setting up a repository into OS X) 4 the same?

Also I think this is a typo: LoadModuledav_svn_module - LoadModule dav_svn_module

I got to:

svn import -m “initial import” /Library/WebServer/Documents/svn_default

And it says:

svn: Invalid URL ‘/Library/WebServer/Documents/svn_default’

Any ideas?

Thanks for making this tutorial!