Less Than Mere-Moments Installation of Subversion
Inspired by Joe’s Mere-Moments Guide to installing a Subversion server on Windows, I have created an installer that will walk you through the steps that are required for installing Subversion on Windows. You can find my project here: http://svn1clicksetup.tigris.org. It still has room for some refinements, but it should make the installation process even easier. If you haven’t tried SVN yet, I would highly recommend doing so.
February 8th, 2006 at 2:59 pm
I’m not sure where to get help but I am desperate (really). I just started this job and they need me to upgrade SVN from version 0.34 to 1.30. I read everything I could find. Finally with shaking hands I made a dump file (svnadmin dump /location/of/repos >dumpfile), then installed svn1.30 and BDB 4.3.29, created an empty repository (svnadmin creat /newrep/dir) and then loaded the dump file to that (svnadmin load /dir/to/new/repos). I edited to current apache.conf file to point to the new repos, restarted apache, went to the targetr folder on my computer, right cliked and continue to get - Error: PROPFIND request failed on ‘/svn/repos’
Error: Expected version ‘3′ of repository; found version ‘1′
I have tried for a week now (programmers are starting to do tribal war dances now). What am I doing wrong? Help please or direct me to where I can get help with this issue.
Thank you so much…I’ll be waiting and dodging programmers spears,
Melody
April 25th, 2006 at 4:41 am
Good work! A suggestion for future versions: Options to include the Apache (or IIS?) server links, perhaps with wwwsvn etc so new svn Windows users can experience the power of accessing subversion through the web interface…
May 28th, 2006 at 7:48 am
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June 20th, 2006 at 9:49 am
Great tool! Makes the install a quick 5 minute job! You da man!
July 7th, 2006 at 10:07 am
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July 8th, 2006 at 11:01 pm
Man, I’ve been scared of SVN for a long time: It’s a mysterious tool used by Linux Hackers. But, after this installer, I’m regularly using SVN for all my development work. Thanks a lot dude… As Chris said, “You’re da man!”:D
July 12th, 2006 at 10:10 pm
Bummer. There’s a bug that’s left me unable to use the installer. I was running the tool and when on the screen (I think the 3rd) to choose an editor to edit the config files, I made one choice and proceeded, then thought I should change it.
When I hit the back button, though, it skipped all the way back to the beginning. That wouldn’t be tragic, but when I hit “next” to start over, it instead skipped ahead, not only past what I had done, but also past the that had followed the editor screen (where I first hit the back button). I hadn’t paid attention to what was on it, so now that I can’t see it, I’m reluctant to proceed with the installer.
I’ve cancelled it and started over, but again it seems to always want to continue where it left off, which I’ve frankly never seen any windows installer do. (And no, all the “skip next step” check boxes are unchecked and I never checked them at any point in this.) Was really hoping to enjoy this one-click approach. Thanks for offering it.
Does anyone know if there is some config file that it’s looking at to pick up where it left off, so I can delete it? I will, of course, reboot the machine eventually in case it’s just in memory somewhere.
But I thought I should share this here in case anyone else trips over it.
July 21st, 2006 at 11:01 am
I also get an error just after installing subversion, stating that the pare script was failed.
With that, the installer stays there and would not proceed to the next step unless I check the skip box.
August 15th, 2006 at 9:09 am
I had the same problem (~ couldn’t parse svn version).
It seems the installer tries to parse the output from some svn command which is translated to local language.
changing system language to english fixed it.
November 1st, 2006 at 2:14 pm
works great for me!!! thank you so much for writing this, you really saved me a few hours (possibly days) of getting svn setup on windows.
i had everything on a network share, and accessing it through file:///j:/svnroot/ did actually corrupt it. i lost everything
so now that won’t happen anymore since i can do svn://computer-name/ !
thanks!
March 14th, 2007 at 9:52 pm
Thank you very much!!! saved me some headeaches.
March 20th, 2007 at 5:24 pm
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May 8th, 2007 at 5:19 am
Hi man, great tutorial. one question: You create a default project: project1, with subfolders: branches/tag/trunk. Were can I specify my own default project, so whenever user create a new project, it will include a set of subfolders
May 8th, 2007 at 4:35 pm
It wont let me create a repository when i run from command prompt and type: svnadmin create “c:\Documents and Settings\Subversion Repository” and this is what i get:
’svnadmin’ is not recognized as an internal or external commanc, operable prgram or batch files.
June 25th, 2007 at 2:21 am
Wow! I just got SVN 1.4.3 working through the Windows NT Service on WinXP Pro SP2. I had it working through the svnserve daemon quite easily but had some unnecessary headaches with the service. After reading the installed guide thoroughly on the Windows Service install, and the document online, here’s what I found (I have yet to try to connect remotely - all of this has been locally).
Follow the document precisely!: http://svn.collab.net/repos/svn/trunk/notes/windows-service.txt
Two problems I was having:
1. I must have had a missing space after an ‘=’ or a missing ‘”‘ in my arguments to the sc command. I was getting Windows Error 1053 indicating that the svnserve was not responding in a timely manner. Event viewer gave it in detail. After doing a copy paste from the Subversion Guide (installed on the Subversion system) for the appropriate sc command, I got the service to startup and remain started after refreshes. Second problem…
2. Attempting to connect using: ’svn ls svn://localhost/‘ gave the common problem described above, “Can’t connect to host ‘localhost’: No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it.” At first, I remembered having to tell Windows Firewall to make an exception for my svnserve daemon (when I wasn’t using the service to verify my svn configuration), so I thought that I had to open the port (since it was service control manager starting the process now). But that didn’t solve it. What solved it was changing the arguments to the command, ’svnserve’ in the sc command from -r to –root . This allowed the connection to proceed without rejection. (btw, I’m keeping the Firewall port open for remote clients).
Hope this helps somebody.
~dan
June 25th, 2007 at 2:26 am
Bummer. Wish I would have seen this blog and the Svn1Click project before! Oh well.
~dan
July 8th, 2007 at 2:19 am
Wow, I can’t believe how easy this was! The installer ran through the steps and using all the default values, I ended up with a working Subversion installation in about 2 minutes. Thanks!!
July 8th, 2007 at 2:38 am
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February 15th, 2008 at 1:09 pm
Will this be updated soon for 1.4?