On 2024/05/26 19:57:46 Bo Berglund wrote: > On Sun, 26 May 2024 10:24:27 -0000, Michael Osipov <micha...@apache.org> > wrote: > > >> WebSVN is still actively maintained (version 2.8.4 was released 2 months > >> ago) and offers the features you're looking for (view files, logs and > >> diffs) and more. > >> > >> I'm not aware of any screenshots, but installing it for evaluation > >> purposes is reasonably straightforward. > > > >More or less solve maintainer of WebSVN here. I try to keep it alive with > >fixes and small improvements for the entire community. Thought, I cannot > >compare it to ViewVC, never used. > > > >> For small to medium-scale projects, I find it a really helpful addition > >> to the Subversion server. For large-scale projects with more than a > >> thousand branches or tags, performance will become an issue. > > > >Yes, that is a long standing problem [1] I'd like to solve, but cannot ATM > >due to lack of time and knowledge in that area. > > > >Michael > > Thanks for the explanation! > > Our repository contains a fair number of projects organized as: > "project type"/"project name"/trunk,branches,tags > > The "project type" level consists of 11 named type directories. > Below each type are the actual project directories with the project name as > the > dir name. > And within each project we start with trunk-tags-branches dirs until we get to > the actual data. > > There ia usually just 1 or 2 persons working on each project. > > And the number of commits are rather limited as well as the tags and branches. > The latter are mostly non-existing or just a handful. > > My problem with ApacheSVN interface: > > With the Apache SVN installation where I keep the backups (using svnsync) it > is > not possible to display the top level so the project types can be shown and > stepped into. > > I just get a "Forbidden" error if I try to use the URL that should get me to > the > top. > > If I know the top level name I can get to a navigable list and drill down from > there. > > So all other levels I can navigate with the web browser, but there is not much > one can do there, for instance viewing the log message tree for a file etc. > > And if I click a file in the list it will be downloaded to my PC rather than > shown on screen. I expected it to show up on screen to be viewed (if it is a > text file). > > This is what I would like to be able to do as well as diffing revisions of a > file etc. > > Questions: > 1) Does WebSVN need to be installed as part of the SVN installation on Linux > or > is it just a different way to navigate the repository such that it could in > fact > run on a *different* computer than the SVN server?
WebSVN requires the official Subversion client to be installed. > 2) Is WebSVN strictly a read-only tool, i.e. it does not try to write anything > into the repository? Correct. Read-only/view. For other WebSVN issues, please raise withe GitHub project, I will respond. Michael
