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Version Control with Subversion, 2nd Edition
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Version Control with Subversion, 2nd Edition

by C. Michael Pilato, Ben Collins-Sussman, Brian W. Fitzpatrick
September 2008
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
432 pages
13h 57m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Name

svnadmin create — Create a new, empty repository.

Synopsis

svnadmin create REPOS_PATH

Description

Create a new, empty repository at the path provided. If the provided directory does not exist, it will be created for you.[57] As of Subversion 1.2, svnadmin creates new repositories with the FSFS filesystem backend by default.

While svnadmin create will create the base directory for a new repository, it will not create intermediate directories. For example, if you have an empty directory named /var/svn, creating /var/svn/repos will work, while attempting to create /var/svn/subdirectory/repos will fail with an error.

Options

--bdb-log-keep
--bdb-txn-nosync
--config-dir DIR
--fs-type TYPE
--pre-1.4-compatible
--pre-1.5-compatible

Examples

Creating a new repository is this easy:

$ svnadmin create /var/svn/repos

In Subversion 1.0, a Berkeley DB repository is always created. In Subversion 1.1, a Berkeley DB repository is the default, but an FSFS repository can be created with the --fs-type option:

$ svnadmin create /var/svn/repos --fs-type fsfs

[57] Remember, svnadmin works only with local paths, not URLs.

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