Ryan Schmidt wrote on Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 14:38:36 -0600: > 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. >
Changing the authentication realm will have the right effect... (for read-protected repositories) > 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. > > >
