Quick and easy svn server for rails application

After doing some research and playing around, the easiest and best approach for an svn server, in my opinion, is svnserve:

http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.0/ch06s03.html

It is quick and easy to setup and that is what I am all about. It allows access to multiple svn repositories and has an easy authentication setup. Once it is installed and your repository is created:

# svnadmin create ~user/source/project1

You can run svnserve one directory up and it will serve all repositories below it.

To configure authentication you modify two files: passwd and svnserve.conf, both in the /conf directory in the created repository. NOTE – when you modify these files the first entry has to have only one space from the begining of the line to the argument.

To start the server you just type:

# svnserve -d -r ~user/source

That is it. Time to move on to the next task.

How to recursively remove svn metadata

# find . -name .svn -print0 | xargs -0 rm -rf

will go thru a project and recursively remove the .svn metadata.