Re: [SVN-MIGRATION] Steps for the SVN migration

[email protected] ("Helgi Þormar Þorbjörnsson")
Newsgroups svn.migration
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Sat, Jul 26, 2008 at 2:22 AM, Gwynne Raskind
<[email protected]> wrote:
> On Jul 25, 2008, at 7:18 PM, Lars Strojny wrote:
>>
>> 1.) Do we want to use mod_dav_svn or svnserve, the subversion daemon?
>>
>> Pro:
>>  * Allows to browse the repository with a normal webserver, very handy
>>  * Allows to use mod_authz_svn for fine grained access (different
>>    format from the current format, but easily to read)
>>  * Is writable with normal WebDAV clients which might be a handy
>>    feature for those, who do not want to bother with learning SVN
>>    (those who do documentation translations, website updates, etc.)
>>
>> Contra:
>>  * Might be slower
>>  * Forces us to use Apache 2, which we, as I heard, currently do not
>>    use
>
> I've always personally preferred svnserve. It has Authz support these days
> and I think PHP's Apache servers have enough to deal with as it is.

Are you sure about that ? Most people I know that maintain a svn repo
for public or private projects all seem to have a resounding answer -
that being mod_dav

Can we do wget http://pathtorepo and voila have a checkout for example
? with svnserve that is
Seems like a really handy feature anyway ;-)

Regards
Helgi
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