The Lost Dragon

Create the Repository sudo svnadmin create /var/svn/repositories/test Allow the Apache to read and write to the repository sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/svn/repositories/test Create the permissions file with the first user. sudo htpasswd -c /etc/subversion/passwd dragon Subsequent users can be added by same command WITHOUT the -c option. Edit the apache2.conf file sudo gedit /etc/apache2/apache2.conf <Location /svn> DAV svn SVNParentPath /var/svn/repositories/ SVNListParentPath On AuthType Basic AuthName "Test" AuthUserFile /etc/subversion/passwd <LimitExcept GET PROPFIND OPTIONS REPORT> Require valid-user </LimitExcept> </Location>

Well, this thing is something very new for me. Bazaar is a Distributed Revision Control System for tracking and managing the code that we usually write for various applications. And its not uncommon for people like us to find ourselves in serious trouble when accidentally we have deleted a file or a piece of code that made the whole system work. But now its not there. I remember that night when me and Samarendra were at Appi's place in baner. I had stayed back to work with Samar for our final year project appi . We had setup my 8GB with Ubuntu 8.10 on it. So it was a moving Ibex on our stick. We had our repository at Google Code. And thankfully we had thought about it. But that night, suddenly the pen drive mal functioned and whole of our code got lost. Just because we had some part of it revisioned at Google Code, we were able to get the most of the lost things. So if you are working on some project which means a lot to you, do have it re-visioned some where using tools like Bazaa...