Creating SVN Repo and Accessing from within a CentOS 7 Machine

Question

We have a CentOS 7 machine where multiple users are working in some project. We want to create a local svn repository which can be accessed from within CentOS server.

The normal svn commands such as "svn checkout" always needs an URL such as "svn checkout http:///svn/repo/path/."

Is there a way to use this commands locally without http such as "svn checkout /svn/repo/path/".

It's a very basic question but I don't seem to find answer of it. If anybody has any help, will be very thankful...

Answer 1

It is technically possible to use the local file:// access protocol to work with a repository without deploying any Subversion server at all. See https://subversion.apache.org/quick-start#setting-up-a-local-repo and https://svnbook.red-bean.com/nightly/en/svn.basic.in-action.html#svn.advanced.reposurls.

However, you need to deploy a server if the repository has multiple users. See the following information in SVNBook:

Do not be seduced by the simple idea of having all of your users access a repository directly via file:// URLs. Even if the repository is readily available to everyone via a network share, this is a bad idea. It removes any layers of protection between the users and the repository: users can accidentally (or intentionally) corrupt the repository database, it becomes hard to take the repository offline for inspection or upgrade, and it can lead to a mess of file permission problems (see the section called “Supporting Multiple Repository Access Methods”). Note that this is also one of the reasons we warn against accessing repositories via svn+ssh:// URLs—from a security standpoint, it's effectively the same as local users accessing via file://, and it can entail all the same problems if the administrator isn't careful.