Comments on: Tutorial: Subversion on Mac OS X

By: Phil

Phil — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 12:33:07 +0000

I echo Gary’s (Sep 3 08) comments, clear tutorial, covers all bases, thank for taking the time to prepare and to share.

By: Gary

Gary — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 01:32:31 +0000

Great tutorial. I’ve worked w/ SVN at work for a number of years, but finally decided to set up a repo here at home. Your Macpot post included all the necessary information to do so. Thank you, sir, for taking the time to share it with us.

By: bryan

bryan — Tue, 18 Apr 2006 00:20:24 +0000

Wow! Thanks for the concise and very well written tutorial. This really got me up to speed on how these systems work. I am a totall newb. to version control and this really helped.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Tue, 07 Feb 2006 07:02:02 +0000

Thanks for writing the tutorial. It was very clear.
Andrew

By: Tony Bianco

Tony Bianco — Fri, 28 Oct 2005 20:52:39 +0000

On the server that I am attempting to connect to it says I need authentication. So I got the certificate but I’m not sure how to install the certificate. I think I need to go to my config file but I don’t know how to get to my config file.

can someone please help me out?

By: Dave Frey

Dave Frey — Wed, 22 Jun 2005 11:31:42 +0000

Hi Frank, thanks for paving the way a bit, that helped me out. I mixed your work with some from Bill Dudney (for dedicated svn user:group and xinetd setup) and my own experiences, and posted the result here.

By: ratso

ratso — Fri, 03 Jun 2005 22:55:55 +0000

Excellent! Thanks so much for this.

By: Jeff Hartman

Jeff Hartman — Thu, 26 May 2005 22:05:27 +0000

Excellent Frank. Thanks for this great little tutorial. Looking forward to the next Subversion tutorial about accessing from different machines (using BBEdit) – although I could probably dig into the svn book at red-bean. A nice short how-to is my preference though.

I have needed version control for some time now, especially for a large project I have coming up.

Cheers.

By: Frank Pape

Frank Pape — Thu, 26 May 2005 21:52:51 +0000

Jeff: you would get that error if the svnadmin create failed.

Looking back over the tutorial, I realize this is completely unclear, but you will need to run “svnadmin create /usr/local/svn” again after creating the directory and modifying permissions (there’s a little more to it than just creating the directory; subversion basically has to set up a repository database in that location, and that’s what the “svnadmin create” does).

Sorry for leaving that out — I’m updating the tutorial now.

By: Jeff Hartman

Jeff Hartman — Thu, 26 May 2005 05:08:22 +0000

I have a Mac GUI heritage and although I enjoy the command line, I haven’t a clue sometimes. At the step:

svn import /tmp/personal file:///usr/local/svn -m “initial import”

I get an error:
svn: Unable to open an ra_local session to URL
svn: Unable to open repository ‘file:///usr/local/svn’

Not sure where to go with that. Installed Martin Ott’s 1.2 package and am walking through this step by step. FWIW, I could not use svnadmin create due to permissions so I created the directories manually and sudo chown’ed them.