> > From: Ryan Schmidt <subversion-20...@ryandesign.com> > >> cadaver(1) allows browsing WebDAV HTTP servers from the command line. > >> It doesn't do everything you want (but you might be able to use it as > >> a starting point (if you enable http:// access to your repositories)). > > > > I was going to suggest WebDAV too, only I was going to recommend using your >OS > > > WebDAV client (assuming your OS has one) to mount the repository, then > > using
> > your OS shell or disk browser to examine it as desired. I just tried this > > on >Mac > > > > > OS X and it worked fine. No need to install additional software. (Though >there > > > would be the need to enable WebDAV on your repository server, if you're not > > already using http to serve the repository.) > > On Jun 8, 2011, at 00:04, Rick Varney wrote: > > > Hello Ryan, > > > > Interesting! I'd like to play with this, but I have not yet enabled > > http:// > > access to my repository - we're still using svnserve for now. I'm trying > > to >use > > > Konqueror on Linux to connect to: > > > > webdav://svn.apache.org/repos/afs/ > > > > But without success - maybe WebDAV is not enabled for this server? Are you > > aware of any WebDAV enabled servers on the web I could play with? > > > > I emailed you off the subversion users list because I didn't think this >question > > > would be of general interest. Feel free to CC the list if you feel it is. > > > > Thanks for the suggestion! > > > > Rick > From: Ryan Schmidt <subversion-20...@ryandesign.com> > To: Rick Varney <rnvar...@yahoo.com> > Sent: Tue, June 7, 2011 10:18:27 PM > Subject: Re: svnshell-like client > > All Subversion servers serving over http or https are WebDAV enabled; > the Subversion Apache module is a layer on top of WebDAV; WebDAV is a > prerequisite for its use. > > Accessing http://svn.apache.org/repos/afs/ in a web browser says it's 404 not >found. > > Perhaps you meant http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/ ? Connecting to that in > the > Mac OS X Finder, I am able to browse it. > > Even if you continue to use svnserve for your developers, you could >simultaneously > > enable http and/or https access so that you can browse by WebDAV. You could > even make the web access read-only and only allow writes via svnserve. > > http://svnbook.red-bean.com/nightly/en/svn.serverconfig.multimethod.html > I decided that maybe this would be educational to others like me, so I am posting it to the list. If I mount the the repository as a file system using a WebDAV client, how would I accomplish doing an svn info on a file, for example? I assume that svn info would think files in the mounted file system are unversioned files. Is there a way to discover the URL of files mounted in this way? Regards, Rick
