Chapter 10. Administrating the Repository

Day-to-day, most Subversion repositories require little intervention on the part of an administrator. There are, however, a few essential skills that a good administrator needs to know to keep everything running smoothly, such as setting up user access, backing up the data in the repository, and recovering from crashes.

Controlling Access to the Repository

Subversion supplies you with a number of different repository access schemas that can be used from a Subversion client (as illustrated in Figure 10.1). Each schema represents not only a different access mechanism, but also a differing level of access control available to the administrator. The range of control varies from simply being able to use the operating ...

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