On Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 10:39, Bob Archer <bob.arc...@amsi.com> wrote: >> in most cases, you don't want to host a SVN repository on Windows. > > Why? We are a windows "shop" and we have windows servers and we host on > windows. I've seen zero problems. I think this type of anti-ms FUD is going > to be bad for svn if it is widely said and published. >
I've had one repeatable issue. We serve w/ Apache, and due to clashes between case-sensitive and case-insensitive code, we occasionally have people who can't check in. My <Location> block gives the path /Repos, and I use SVNParentPath to serve multiple repositories from one parent (standard stuff). So I have: e:\Repositories\Code e:\Repositories\Documentation And my URLs are http://server/Repos/Code http://server/Repos/Documentation Apache & Subversion are case-sensitive, but as we all know Windows isn't. So when a user checks out from http://server/Respos/code, Apache goes looking for e:\Repositories\code and Windows dishes it up. We allow anonymous checkout, so the checkout happens, no problem. But our authz file is written as [Code:/path] and when committing, we get 403 Forbidden errors because no rules match - the user is committing to code and the rule checks for Code, case-sensitive. It's an easy enough fix on the client side, but it is an annoyance.
