SUBVERSION at ESO

General

• general information about subversion can be found in: http://subversion.tigris.org
• for CVS users a CVS to SVN crossover guide is available.
• A Quick Reference Card is also available.

Our installation

• the server is svnsrv.hq.eso.org, a Linux machine running standard supported OSC Linux. It is kept in ESO central computer room, RAID level zero and backed up (Helpdesk call #082339#).
• performance: we expect it to be slower than CVS for checkouts, but faster for updates and commits measurement are available (see this thread).
• access methods: currently svn and http access methods are supported. This choice has been taken after careful consideration of parameters like ease of usage, security, password exchange protocols.
• password distribution: currently passwords must be generated by each project responsible for each user. This is due to the fact that at the time of this writing (SVN 1.4.2) it is not yet possible to save encrypted passwords on the server. Notice that the password is cached by the client (unless told otherwise) in the user's home directory on Unix/Linux.
• The URL will be: svn://svnsrv.hq.eso.org/p2 where x is the number of the project.
• As a first step you can try to do a svn ls -v svn://svnsrv.hq.eso.org/p2 The client will ask you to authenticate if needed.

Clients

• client software: command line client a la CVS are available for several Linux flavours and have been tested by us with RHEL 4. Brief instructions on how to compile them are in here.
• emacs mode is available here.
• eclipse plugins are available from http://subclipse.tigris.org/.
• Eclipse update manager's location for Subversive (another Eclipse plugin) is: http://www.polarion.org/projects/subversive/download/1.1/update-site/
• web access is available using proper authentication at http://svntest.hq.eso.org/viewvc
• Two Windows clients exist that we know of, Tortoise and WinSVN.

How To...

• get an account:
  please contact alma-sw-semgr@eso.org