Disabling SSH shell access for SVN users on a Linux/Unix system
A common problem is that Linux/Unix system administrators want to grant users access to SVN repositories, but prevent them from logging in on the shell. This can be accomplished quite easily. First,...
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Untangling WordPress’ core files from your local customizations
Since version 2.6, WordPress can be installed in its own directory, separate from your customizations and everthing. Needless to say, this makes upgrading a whole lot easier. If, in the pre-2.6 days,...
View ArticleSilent change in URLs of Ruby on Rails svn repository
I don’t know why, but everything associated with Ruby on Rails seems to change all the time, without notice, or (in the case of URLs) without redirect. We used http://svn.rubyonrails.org/rails for our...
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Styling XML SVN logs with CSS
My friend, Wiebe, keeps his website in Subversion. (Always keep your project files in version management or you’ll be sorry.) He used to manually track the date with the last significant change in each...
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Tracking MediaWiki in a Subversion vendor branch
Vendor branches are the proper way of merging upstream changes in your web application installations. In Subversion, managing vendor branches isn’t so easy as it is in Git. Still, vendor branches make...
View ArticleTracking WordPress in a Subversion vendor branch
Two months prior to writing a script to upgrade MediaWiki installations using Subversion vendor branches, I wrote something similar for WordPress. It’s a little bit more limited and should really...
View ArticleReplacing the full contents of a Subversion working (sub)dir
The annoyances that I suffered earlier today during the upgrade of a WordPress plugin made me turn to my favorite text-editor to create a simple script, svn-replace-dir: #!/bin/bash usage() { cat...
View ArticleFirst steps with Subversion’s new merge tracking
A while ago we succeeded in upgrading the Debian server where I keep many of my SVN repositories. (The server was running on “testing”, but we hadn’t dared to upgrade it for a long time until it came...
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Aihato WordPress maintenance notes
According to Brian Kernighan, “Everyone knows that debugging is twice as hard as writing a program in the first place. So if you’re as clever as you can be when you write it, how will you ever debug...
View ArticleConverting a Subversion repository to Git
I just used the instructions in this article by John Albin to archive an old svn project on my private machine. A shell summary (see the John’s article for details): svn log -q | awk -F '|' '/^r/...
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