Re: GUI interface to Subversion via web browser?

On 2024/05/26 19:57:46 Bo Berglund wrote:
> On Sun, 26 May 2024 10:24:27 -0000, Michael Osipov <[email protected]> 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