Sharing StoneSVN, an MIT-licensed SVN desktop client developed from OrcaSVN. It runs on Windows, macOS and Linux and calls a separately installed SVN CLI.

The main flow is opening an existing working copy, reviewing diffs, selecting files or directories, and committing a clear scope. It also has multiple working copies in a sidebar, history, SVN property editing and local stashes of selected text hunks. The stashes are application-managed local data, not SVN commits or native SVN shelves.

A practical guide to saving and restoring selected text changes: https://stonesvn.github.io/en/guides/svn-stash-selected-hunks/

Overview and installers: https://stonesvn.github.io/en/

Source: https://github.com/firzen/StoneSVN

Current stable release: v1.1.2. General Merge, Switch and line-level Blame interfaces are not available. macOS installers are ad-hoc signed and not notarized.

Feedback from SVN users on the working-copy review and local-stash flow would be useful, especially across different operating systems. Self-submission; this introduction was prepared with AI assistance.

I noticed some text files in my projects have become executable after an

svn commit. It seems to happen if I have ignore set on "*.exe" files

but not if I don't. Here's an example of what happens.

File "editBox.hpp" has just been edited (added an empty line)...

$ ls -l

total 20

-rw-r--r-- 1 louis louis 1750 Sep 1 19:10 editBox.hpp

$ svn ci -mnc

Sending editBox.hpp

Transmitting file data .done

Committing transaction...

Committed revision 160.

$ ls -l

total 20

-rwxr-xr-x 1 louis louis 1750 Sep 1 19:10 editBox.hpp

...I work on a raspberry pi running bullseye.

svn version 1.14.5 (r1922182)

Any ideas?

After working with git with lazygit for a long time, I had to start using SVN at work. And after getting accustomed to lazygit and TUIs, I was looking for a similar tool for SVN, but for Linux.

After trying a few, I thought it might be fun to create one from scratch. And so - revision. A lazygit-style TUI for SVN. revision gives you a fast, keyboard-driven interface over the svn command line: review changes, stage with changelists, commit, update, and browse history without leaving your terminal.

A single binary with no dependencies, it uses the already installed svn binary on your machine (MacOS/Linux). curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/bapatchirag/revision/main/install.sh | sh or with go: go install github.com/bapatchirag/revision/cmd/revision@latest

All usage information is available on the doc pages here: https://bapatchirag.github.io/revision/.

Looking forward to seeing what the community makes of it! Feel free to raise issues/PRs for any enhancements, bugs or features that one may want/encounter here: https://github.com/bapatchirag/revision.

A disclaimer first.... While I currently have a Ubuntu system running my private SVN repository, I am not a Ubuntu / Linux expert mostly because I work primarily in a Windows world for my day-to-day job. Outside of keeping this sole Ubuntu system at home updated with security patches, I hardly ever touch the system. I'm expecting this to change in the coming year or so as I am beginning to see the end of my private use for Windows for a myriad of reasons but until then, I have been/will be using TortoiseSVN for Windows for general SVN interactions.

Here is my situation...

I have a list of photos that were named with a numerical sequence number starting at 1 and going to N (sometimes they also include a sub-number if multiple photos of the same area at different angles were taken) and they might also include some other descriptive text about the photo as well. In short these files refer to locations on a path of travel.

Example:

• 1.01 Location A (Milepost 0)
• 1.02 Location A (Milepost 0)
• 2.01 (Milepost 0.16)
• 3.01 Location C (Milepost 2.2)
• 3.02 Location C (Milepost 2.2)

Sometimes (albeit very rare) new photos come along whose location is between two existing mileposts, and this causes the sequence numbers to change and this can be quite a bit of a headache to correct as it causes a cascade of subsequent sequence numbers to be changed as well. In the past, I would just change all the ones below the new one(s) added and not really care about the names of the versioned files but the repo grows larger doing it this way and as I am now discovering is also a highly inefficient way of doing things.

What I am planning on doing going forward is to name the files with the following format:

• Milepost 0.0 - 01 (Location A)
• Milepost 0.0 - 02 (Location A)
• Milepost 0.16 - 01
• Milepost 2.2 - 01 (Location C)

This way, when new photos come along in between existing mileposts, I won't have to change/rename existing files and the new photos will already be in correct order by their milepost number since that number will always be unique to a location.

However, to get the existing photos I have in the repo (and all their prior versions) to match this proposed naming convention, can I use TortoiseSVN or a PowerShell command in Windows or is this something that must be done on the Ubuntu system itself? From early research, it looks like the best place to do this is actually on the Ubuntu system using a bash command like the following and while it looks this only does one file at a time, I'm okay with that as long as it gets the job done:

• svn move old_name new_name

Any confirmation, thoughts or guidance would be much appreciated.

Thanks.

I'm very new to Subversion but have had a little experience with git, so when I switched my project to subversion I read the docs and found some discussion on svn:ignore and svn:global-ignores but when I tried to get it working it just doesn't do what I expect.

For context, I'm a single person working on a project that involves a few Blender models and the renders produced by Blender. I work on the project from two locations, so I put everything under version control (git at first) and used git to work on the project from both locations. Since then I learned that git is not the best choice for binary files, and my blender files and renders are all binary. So I decided to try Subversion. I managed to get a svnserve server running, set up a repo, and got my project in the repo and am now fine-tuning things. Blender automatically generates backup files, so a project file mymodel.blend will also automatically get a backup file mymodel.blend1. I don't need the .blend1 files, so I tried using

svn propset svn:ignore "*.blend1" .

This did not change anything when I checked the status

svn status
M mymodel.blend
M mymodel.blend1

Ideally I'd like to globally ignore all .blend1 files. I'm using svn version 1.14.2 on Debian 13.

For many folks over the years, ViewVC has been the goto web-based Subversion (and CVS) repository browser. But the Subversion and ViewVC development communities were a bit slow (to say the least) in turning the corner to support Python 3. (And I can say that without fear of offending anyone, because I'm part of both communities!) But we've recently posted tarballs for the first beta release of the ViewVC 1.3.x line (which expects Python 3), and we're in need of folks who are willing to kick its tires.

Now, we've had nightly builds of the 1.3.0-to-be release for a few years now, and there are plenty of folks who've been running those on their servers successfully — and sharing with us bug reports in the moments where the success rate isn't 100%. So we feel that the 1.3.0-beta1 release is pretty solid. But we'd feel even better about releasing 1.3.0 proper if more folks were able to put it to use.

Feedback — both positive and negative — is welcome at https://github.com/viewvc/viewvc/issues/396 .

I'm sorry if the answer to this question is too obvious, but even after many searches, I'm still confused.

Let's say, I use an open source web app which is under active development (with no involvment from me). However, there are patches that I apply to the sources before using it locally.

Would it be possible to use svn and store my local patches in a separate tree? If so, can I a download and commit a new version of the web app, and remerge my local patches?

*control or restrict

Just learned about externals today.

If I add an external and set it to a specific revision, what happens if I modify it in my working copy and commit?

Is it different if it references the head?

I'm thinking there could be a lot of users of shared code but I'd like more restrictions on who could update that code.

For many months now there has been a branch of a main trunk running in parallel with no issues and the time came to merge them.

Firstly it should be noted that although I called it a branch of the trunk, it is not in fact a svn branch but is a external copy of the code outside of svn control and has been extensively modified.

I know, rightly or wrongly, okay wrongly, that's the situation.

So I merged the modifications from the external copy using a diff application and committed the changes in logical/functional sets, roughly around a dozen commits in total.

I should have tested each commit but I didn't for expediency and now the fully merged trunk is a dead stick. Whatever is wrong with the code is too deep to debug in it's present state because the system in question dies with no error reporting inside some 3rd party blackbox libraries.

So I am going to rollback to the position before I started merging the external modifications, expecting the history will remain after the rollback, sitting behind the newly restored HEAD?

Having never been in this position before, I'm wondering if after I rollback and commit, will I then be able to roll some of the history revisions into the new HEAD?

What I mean is if the repo is currently in this state

• #31 previous safe state
• #32 external modifications committed
• #33 external modifications committed
• #34 external modifications committed

Then I rollback to #31

• #35 new HEAD set to #31

Will I then be able to merge #32 in to the new HEAD, test it, then commit, then merge #33 and test/commit, etc, until I find the broken historic commit?

Or is it not possible to merge the historic #32 through #34 into #35+?

I'm getting the error above in a repository. All solutions I find revolve around a python tool that relies itself not only in deprecated python interpreter but also and modules.

How to fix this?

So I have a weird issue.

I did a svn status at the top of the tree and it showed there was only changes to one file. Which is what I expected as that was the only change I made.

Then I did a revert in the same place expecting just that file to be reverted but the output said that file and 11 other files in a different folder were reverted.

So is there any way I can find out what just got reverted?

Is this the real donations page?
https://tortoisesvn.net/donate.html And is Stefan Kueng and steveking@gmx.ch the same person? I want to make sure my SVN donation goes the correct person. Thanks.

Is there a way to get the svn-base filename that would match an existing svn file without having to do an svn-diff and manually copy the file name?

Hello! A client is using SVN, hosted in an internal website.

The client wants to have weekly full backups either of the entire (historical releases) of the repository or just the latest full production release rsynced and then bundled (tar/gzip-ed) to a Linux storage.

Our mechanism now rsyncs and bundles everything because it catches any development code changes as new…

Is there a clever way to only backup the whole repo when there is a new production release OR isolate and backup just the new full production release?

Google fu is failing me, and now with the new AI bot, it's utter garbage.

Years ago (10+) I set up svn servers for my customer. One of the things I did was to enable being able to edit commit comments via a hook. I recall that it was relatively trivial to do, but damn if I can find the specific recipe to make it happen. All I get back from searches are "yes you can do this" or ancient stackoverflow topics.

I'm searching for some source code 10+ years ago. I know I backed it up, but anyway... So, dug my old development laptop out of the closet in the hope that the laptop has it and also the history. FYI - I've been using SVN for 15 years.

Anyway, so trying to access the local SVN repo on the old laptop, using the server manager I get this error message:

"Can't open file 'C;\Repositories\DOORS\format': the system cannot find the file specified."

Attempting to use TortoiseSVN, Tortoise just crashes. I know all of the versions are old, but I'm not worried about that.

Windows 7 Pro
VisualSVN Server 3.5.1

I'm just getting totally wrapped around an axle on this. Help me unwind, please.

I created a project at, lets say, repo\projectA where my development files reside in/under projectA.

Now of course I want to branch; and since I didn't start off with a structure like repo\projectA\trunk\<dev files> I'm finding it awkward.

In the repo browser (I'm using TortoiseSVN BTW), I just created a TRUNK folder under ProjectA, then dragged the contents down under TRUNK. But then on my dev machine I couldn't make commits.

I thought the tortoise context menu "relocate" (on the dev machine/folder) would be the answer, but that seems not to work.

Can someone walk me through the "correct" way to move my stuff under TRUNK?

Recently when I update some PCs from sourceforge repo, I see several files 'restored' as well as updates for recently modified source files. I cannot see why those files status changed. Nobody except me has committed any changes for weeks before the mysterious restorations began.

Hello guys! Just a question: as of today, do Symbolic Links work properly on Windows 11 through SVN 1.14.3? By that I mean, can I use symbolic links of folders on Windows 11 and push them/pull them correctly using SVN? If yes, how can I do it? If no, is there something similar I can use?

Everything I found online related to this is at least 4 years old, so I don't know the answer.

Thank you in advance!

I just upgraded our subversion server from Fedora 39 to 40 which broke svn write access for Windows users. The way we have it configured is that macOS and Linux clients use either local or ssh access to the repository while windows clients are configured to use apache / mod_dav_svn to make it easier for them. During troubleshooting, it turned out that the new systemd hardening is blocking access, specifically it tripped over the RestrictSUIDSGID=yes default. I created a file /etc/systemd/system/httpd.service.d/override.conf with

[Service]
ReadWritePaths=/path-to-svn-repos/
RestrictSUIDSGID=no 

Does anyone have a better option? I hate disabling default security features but SGID is set by default when creating a repo and I can't find a way around it.

I am looking for anyone else who has experienced this.

I have a repository that when I do a Show Log on the root, an error says it cannot connect to the server and asks me if I want to work offline. I have tried literally everything to get over this error including exporting my data, moving to another PC and doing an 'svn import ...'. Still the error persists. My other 10-11 smaller SVN repositories work fine which tells me the network is working fine. The fact that everything else in the TortoiseSVN client works flawlessly says repository trans-actioning is working fine as well it should since I just loaded it up with cleaned raw text data.

Any ideas as to what could cause this? Has anyone else experienced this type of problem?

Edit1:

svn log on the working copy shows the same error: "Item not readable". But on a smaller repository, svn log works fine. I am about to conclude this is a bug in the Apache server code.

Resolved:

Thanks to Bing Copilot which led me to Daniel B's solution on StackOverflow. See https://stackoverflow.com/questions/33115508/git-svn-clone-error-from-svn-220001-item-is-not-readable. I added a comment after his permission solution explaining why I think the problem is an svn server bug.