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Subversion on OS X, Part 2: Your First Project

I ran into some permissions problems trying to actually get a project into the repository, so I thought I’d walk through how to get things working in just one try instead of twenty:

  1. Do Not put your repository under your Apache web root, or any virtual host web root. Just don’t. It won’t work.
  2. Apache needs read and write permissions on your Subversion directory. The simplest but perhaps not the most secure way to do this is, after you create the repository, to change the owner of the repository directory and all its contents to the user that Apache …

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Six Steps to a Subversion Server on OS X with Darwinports

I’ve tried on at least three separate occasions to set up a CVS repository on my computer, but each time I’ve completely given up, mostly because getting the darn thing configured properly just seems to be beyond my abilities.

But besides that, CVS is really obsolete at this point, and Subversion has really taken over its status as the de facto standard for free, open-source revision control software.

Installation was yet another project that turned out to be super-easy with a little help from Darwinports.

Here’s the full set of steps to install:

  1. Grab Apache 2 off Darwinports and get it running separately …

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Upgrading Django from Stable to Subversion

Django is in fairly heavy development, heading for a 1.0 release, and not only does there seem to be a lot of new functionality in the newest versions, but some of the older functionality is expected to break.

Since word on the mailing list is that development versions are not only quite stable, but actually recommended over the stable version, and since I don’t have any deployed apps to worry about breaking, I thought it would be better to upgrade now than later.

Even better, this will make future upgrades as simple as a single subversion command (and, well, some fixes for …

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