Has your subversion repository ever been abused by massive commitments? If not, I should say that you are lucky. Never mind that someday you might be abused as it’s hard to predict what the non-Ops are working on and trying to do.

As we know, Subversion uses hidden directories of metadata to enable the functionality it provides. These .svn directories are what makes a directory into a Subversion working copy. Without these, it’s just a directory and Subversion can’t do much with it. UPDATE is an operation that is performed [...]

Sometimes, you may face this issue, how can I downgrade a subversion repository properly? As Subversion does not officially supply this toolset, we’ll show an example on how to downgrade an svn repository from 1.6 to 1.4 via svnsync.

How can I keep two subversion repositories synchronized on the fly? As a known issues that system administrators may face, there’re serval ways to achieve that: svnsync – As part of the official toolset, it would be a good solution. Anyway I will not use it. SVK – Did not check it [...]