If your config files have white spaces between # and the option name and you will delete only the # than an error will occur after running ” svnserve -d -r “C:\Documents and Settings\svn_repos” ” you will recive this error :
>> C:\Documents and Settings\svn_repos\conf\svnserve.conf:12: Option expected

I hope that this will help others too.

>>C:\Program Files\Subversion\bin>svnserve -d -r “d:\repository”

It seams that in the version I use (Setup-Subversion-1.5.1.en-us.msi) I works only the above way or:

>>C:\Program Files\Subversion\bin>svnserve –daemon –root “d:\repository”.

But now I have another problem. I have successfully installed as a service but when I try to start it I got this error (from Event Viewer) :

SVNService process ended prematurely: (”C:\Program Files\Subversion\bin\svnserve.exe” “–daemon” “–root” “d:\repository”)

I think that, again, it is something like the previous line, but I can’t find where to edit this “C:\Program Files\Subversion\bin\svnserve.exe” “–daemon” “–root” “d:\repository”.

Help!

Thanks in advice,
Alex

>>C:\Program Files\Subversion\bin>svnserve -daemon -root “d:\repository”

and the result:

>>Type ’svnserve –help’ for usage.

If I type as it says ’svnserve –help’ … gues what response I get:

>>Type ’svnserve –help’ for usage.

Can you please help me?

Alex

this error message appears to me
svn: Can’t connect to host ‘localhost’: No connection could be made because the
target machine actively refused it.

i tried to add a port to allow connecting to it.but the same result appears
i tried to search for this problem solving but nothing helped out
thanks in advance

Thanks,

VisualSVN is great because it has a GUI over the subversion base install. So if you are a beginer on CVS and SVN you will have it running in minutes. Also, as it’s based on Subversion you can setup advanced option later.

Please check my page:

http://fabianmejia.blogspot.com/2008/06/open-source-control-version-system.html

Sometimes there will be merge conflicts — generally when you modify the same part of the same file in both branches. You can either use a GUI merge tool to resolve the conflicts (if you can figure out how they’re supposed to work), or you can edit the file manually, look for the “<<<<<” and “=====” and “>>>>>” markers, and decide which parts to keep. Make the file look like you want it, deleting the marker lines. If you edit the file manually, then you have to right-click and select “TortoiseSVN > Resolved” to tell SVN you fixed it (there’s also a way to do this from the command line if you prefer).

If you need more info, particularly around best practices, I’d recommend the book “Pragmatic Version Control using Subversion“.

It is very nice article and i have tried the steps, it is working fine. I need to know how the
branching and merging works.
for example, i have branched the main files into revision1 and i modifed in both the places,
when I try to merge the changes it create lots of conflits and it is not merging properly

I want to merge the main changes to revision1 and want to merge the revision1 changes to main.

so main and revision1 will have same content.

how to perform this.

Thanks in advance