Re: New Server can't get my SVN back online

[Daniel Sahlberg]

Den mån 6 feb. 2023 kl 23:00 skrev James Hart :

> K made some progress figured out why I didn’t have command line and got
> them installed
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> Did this
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> C:\Users\jhart>svnadmin create d:/P-Drive/SVN/DCI-Repo
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> svnadmin: E165002: 'D:\P-Drive\SVN\DCI-Repo' is an existing repository
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> Next step ?
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Well, I guess that means you've figured out the path to your repository.
You should check if you have more repos in the same directory.

Now continue with the steps in the SVN book to create a service for
svnserve serving that repository (
https://svnbook.red-bean.com/nightly/en/svn.serverconfig.svnserve.html#svn.serverconfig.svnserve.invoking.winservice
).

Please note that in Subversion "repository" is the central database (on the
server) where you have all your versioning data. The folder where you do
your actual work is a "working copy" and it only contains the current
revision of each file. This is a characteristic of a "centralized version
control software" compared to a "distributed version control software" (for
example git).

The "relocate" (as referenced in the other mail) is used when you have
moved the repository (ie, changed the URL, for example server name) and you
need to point your working copy to a new URL. This may or may not be
required in your case depending on if the new server has inherited the ip
address and/or the server name of the old server.

Kind regards,
Daniel

Checkout problem via http with file external pointing at redirected URL

[Baldauf Christoph]

Hi,

I think, I encountered a problem with the handling of file externals 
that point to a redirected URL.
It looks to me like this issue is related to 
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SVN-4428, with the difference, 
that file externals are involved instead of normal externals.
When doing a checkout of a project that contains such file externals, 
the command line client returns the following error message:


(svn, version 1.14.2 (r1899510))
[[[
> svn co http://server/testrepo/project/trunk
Redirecting to URL 'https://server/testrepo/project/trunk':
 U   trunk
Redirecting to URL 
'https://server/testrepo/testproject/trunk/doc/file_external.txt':

Fetching external item into 'trunk\my_file_external.txt':
svn: warning: W200035: sqlite[S19]: NOT NULL constraint failed: 
EXTERNALS.def_repos_relpath

Checked out revision 34.
svn: E205011: Failure occurred processing one or more externals definitions
]]]


The file external is not checked out.
In my case, the redirection points from http://server/ to https://server/. 

The file external refers to the full http URL:


(externals property of project/trunk)
[[[
>svn pg svn:externals trunk
http://server/testrepo/testproject/trunk/doc/file_external.txt@30 
my_file_external.txt
]]]


The output of svn --version is:

[[[
svn, version 1.14.2 (r1899510)
   compiled Sep 24 2022, 10:21:16 on x86-microsoft-windows

Copyright (C) 2022 The Apache Software Foundation.
This software consists of contributions made by many people;
see the NOTICE file for more information.
Subversion is open source software, see http://subversion.apache.org/

The following repository access (RA) modules are available:

* ra_svn : Module for accessing a repository using the svn network protocol.
  - with Cyrus SASL authentication
  - handles 'svn' scheme
* ra_local : Module for accessing a repository on local disk.
  - handles 'file' scheme
* ra_serf : Module for accessing a repository via WebDAV protocol using serf.
  - using serf 1.3.9 (compiled with 1.3.9)
  - handles 'http' scheme
  - handles 'https' scheme

(...)
]]]


The server version is 1.10.4 (r1850624).
Can anyone confirm this issue?

Best Regards
Christoph