Thanks Ryan. Will give a shot. 

-----Original Message-----
From: Ryan Schmidt [mailto:subversion-20...@ryandesign.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, January 11, 2011 3:39 PM
To: Ramesh Nadupalli
Cc: users@subversion.apache.org
Subject: Re: including a banner in Subversion URL
On Jan 11, 2011, at 14:34, Ramesh Nadupalli wrote:

> Ryan Schmidt wrote:

> 
>> On Jan 10, 2011, at 20:38, Ramesh Nadupalli wrote:
>> 
>>> I would like to have banner set for a subversion URL, can someone 
>>> guide how this can be accomplished?
>> 
>> Do you mean that you would like to customize the way that Subversion 
>> displays pages when someone access a repository's URL in a web 
>> browser? If so, you can do that by providing custom XSLT and CSS 
>> files. Use the directive "SVNIndexXSLT /path/to/svnindex.xsl" in your 
>> httpd.conf. Sample XSLT and CSS files are provided as part of the 
>> Subversion source distribution, or here:
>> 
>> http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/subversion/trunk/tools/xslt/
> 
> Thanks Ryan. I am an administrator,  wants to use this feature to 
> notify users about the upcoming outages, repository movements etc...
> 
> Any pointers? 

You can certainly do that -- supply a custom XSLT file as explained above,
put your messages into that file. Users will see them when they visit the
repository URL in a web browser.

Of course, users don't usually access a repository URL in a web browser;
they usually do so in a Subversion client. I don't know of any way to supply
a custom message to someone using a Subversion client.

And of course the above only works if you're serving your repository with
Apache. If you're serving it with svnserve, then I have no solution for that
either.



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