Archive for the ‘subversion’ Category
Subversion, Apache, nginx and “Entity Too Large”
tl;dr: add client_max_body_size 10m; to your nginx vhost.
This one took me a while to track down. My brother uses my subversion repository, and he was trying to commit a 1MB flash file. The TortoiseSVN error he got back was:
This was a bit perplexing. I figured it was some sort of mod_dav setting I had [...]
May 4, 2010
Posted in: apache, nginx, subversion 
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Extracting a Directory into its Own Subversion Repository
Like my previous subversion post, this is something that is a bit difficult to find on the internet.
Every so often, you realize that a project is growing too big, and it deserves its own repository. What you want is to extract a single directory from one repository, and create an entirely new repository that only [...]
October 26, 2009
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Running a Subversion server on Windows
This needs to be in more places on the internet. I’m sick of googling it every time I can’t remember the stupid command.
Download the zipped up version of Subversion, and put it somewhere, say, c:\lib\svn
Create your subversion repository: c:\lib\svn\bin\svnadmin create c:\path\to\repo
Type this, and the equals sign spacing is extremely intentional:sc create subversion binpath= “c:\lib\svn\bin\svnserve.exe –service [...]
June 16, 2009
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