Subversion Notes

These are some general notes about Subversion

• Creating a New Repository
• Property Settings
• Backup and Restore

Creating a New Subversion Repository

To create a new subversion repository:

$ svnadmin create path

Here path is the absolute path of where the repository should be located.

Subversion Properties

Set execute permissions on a file:

$ snv propset svn:executable 1 file

Remove execute permissions from a file:

$ svn propdel svn:executable file

Enable RCS/CVS style Id tags on a file:

$ svn propset svn:keywords Id file

Subversion Backup and Restore

To Backup a respository:

$ svnadmin dump repository > dump

To Restore a backup:

$ svnadmin create repository
$ svnadmin load repository < dump

See http://wiki2.archlinux.org/index.php/Subversion_backup_and_restore.