You are viewing a plain text version of this content. The canonical link for it is here.
Posted to users@subversion.apache.org by Patrick Sunter <pa...@vpac.org> on 2004/03/05 05:05:18 UTC
tunneling & svn:externals issue?
Hi,
my organisation has switched to svn from cvs, and have in the main been very
happy with it.
Some of our developers live behind a http proxy that doesn't allow all of the
HTTP methods that subversion needs... thus we use the ssh port forwarding
approach described in the FAQ at
http://subversion.tigris.org/project_faq.html#paranoid, which works fine.
However, we also want to use svn:externals so that several of our projects can
automatically check out a shared module of code, and the 2 features don't seem
to work together.
To illustrate:
in the repository directory http://rd01.vpac.org/svn/StGermain/trunk, I set the
svn:externals property to:
spmodeldata http://rd01.vpac.org/svn/SPModel/trunk/data
All good so far, for those of us connecting directly it checks out the requested
eURL into an "spmodeldata" subdirectory.
But if someone is port-forwarding, so e.g. they have checked out the StGermain
repository through the url http://localhost:8888/svn/StGermain/trunk,
then they will be unable to fetch the svn:external due to the aforementioned
http proxy server problem when svn tries to grab it through http directly.
what we'd like to happen is for the http://rd01.vpac.org/svn/SPModel/trunk/data
in the svn:externals to be 'translated' to
http://localhost:8888/svn/SPModel/trunk/data automatically. Does svn have
support for this? I couldn't find any documentation on it, or any relevant
mailing list messages.
Any help greatly appreciated.
cheers, Patrick.
P.S. There was something in the FAQ page above that might be related:
"Joe Orton notes:
The server is sensitive to the hostname used in the Destination header
in MOVE and COPY requests, so you have to be a little careful here - a
"ServerAlias localhost" may be required to get this working properly."
but I'm not super apache savvy so it didn't really click with me.
--
Patrick Sunter
--------------
Visitor in Geophysics
Center for Advanced Computing Research
Mail Code : 158-79
California Institute Of Technology,
Pasadena, CA 91125, USA.
Ph : +1 (1) 626 395 2565
Fax : +1 (1) 626 584 5917
E-Mail : patrick@cacr.caltech.edu
--------------
Project Coordinator & Software Engineer
Victorian Partnership for Advanced Computing
E-Mail: patrick@vpac.org
---------------------------------------------------------------------
To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@subversion.tigris.org
For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@subversion.tigris.org
RE: Re: tunneling & svn:externals issue?
Posted by James Mountifield <jm...@collab.net>.
This thread is very old, and this issue has been addressed (but not in
this list as it is the Subversion Development list, not Users list).
Assuming you are using a 1.5 or later client look up relative externals
here: http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.5/svn.advanced.externals.html
James
-----Original Message-----
From: blackhole@collab.net [mailto:blackhole@collab.net]
Sent: 03 February 2009 12:53
To: dev@subversion.tigris.org
Subject: RE: Re: tunneling & svn:externals issue?
Yes, I am also trying to figure this out...
------------------------------------------------------
http://subversion.tigris.org/ds/viewMessage.do?dsForumId=462&dsMessageId
=1096614
------------------------------------------------------
http://subversion.tigris.org/ds/viewMessage.do?dsForumId=462&dsMessageId=1096998
RE: Re: tunneling & svn:externals issue?
Posted by bl...@collab.net.
Yes, I am also trying to figure this out...
------------------------------------------------------
http://subversion.tigris.org/ds/viewMessage.do?dsForumId=462&dsMessageId=1096614
Re: tunneling & svn:externals issue?
Posted by Patrick Sunter <pa...@vpac.org>.
Hi guys, haven't had any takers for my question below on "users", and would
really appreciate it if you guys could take a look at it. I imagine its an issue
others may face too.
Patrick Sunter wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Some of our developers live behind a http proxy that doesn't allow all
> of the HTTP methods that subversion needs... thus we use the ssh port
> forwarding approach described in the FAQ at
> http://subversion.tigris.org/project_faq.html#paranoid, which works fine.
>
> However, we also want to use svn:externals so that several of our
> projects can automatically check out a shared module of code, and the 2
> features don't seem to work together.
>
> To illustrate:
> in the repository directory http://rd01.vpac.org/svn/StGermain/trunk, I
> set the svn:externals property to:
> spmodeldata http://rd01.vpac.org/svn/SPModel/trunk/data
> All good so far, for those of us connecting directly it checks out the
> requested URL into an "spmodeldata" subdirectory.
>
> But if someone is port-forwarding, so e.g. they have checked out the
> StGermain repository through the url
> http://localhost:8888/svn/StGermain/trunk,
> then they will be unable to fetch the svn:external due to the
> aforementioned http proxy server problem when svn tries to grab it
> through http directly.
>
> what we'd like to happen is for the
> http://rd01.vpac.org/svn/SPModel/trunk/data in the svn:externals to be
> 'translated' to http://localhost:8888/svn/SPModel/trunk/data
> automatically. Does svn have support for this? I couldn't find any
> documentation on it, or any relevant mailing list messages.
>
> Any help greatly appreciated.
>
> cheers, Patrick.
>
> P.S. There was something in the FAQ page above that might be related:
> "Joe Orton notes:
> The server is sensitive to the hostname used in the Destination header
> in MOVE and COPY requests, so you have to be a little careful here - a
> "ServerAlias localhost" may be required to get this working properly."
>
> but I'm not super apache savvy so it didn't really click with me.
>
--
Patrick Sunter
--------------
Visitor in Geophysics
Center for Advanced Computing Research
Mail Code : 158-79
California Institute Of Technology,
Pasadena, CA 91125, USA.
Ph : +1 (1) 626 395 2565
Fax : +1 (1) 626 584 5917
E-Mail : patrick@cacr.caltech.edu
--------------
Project Coordinator & Software Engineer
Victorian Partnership for Advanced Computing
E-Mail: patrick@vpac.org
---------------------------------------------------------------------
To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscribe@subversion.tigris.org
For additional commands, e-mail: dev-help@subversion.tigris.org
Re: tunneling & svn:externals issue?
Posted by Ryan Schmidt <su...@ryandesign.com>.
On Feb 3, 2009, at 08:58, grusaren@yahoo.se wrote:
> One solution is to go into every individual repository and manually
> do a svn switch --relocate on each of the externals you want to use
> with a tunnel, without changing the svn:externals property.
>
> This way the original project and those who don't need to use the
> tunnel can checkout and update normally, and those in need of
> tunneling just have to tweek their local repositories.
>
> This is a horrible solution but it seems to me that it is the only
> way of doing it.
You did not quote the message you are replying to and it's not in my
Subversion mailbox or trash... Are you really replying to a message
that's 5 years old, as the archive indicates, or is the timestamp on
that message wrong?
http://subversion.tigris.org/ds/viewMessage.do?
dsForumId=1065&dsMessageId=314427
In any case, the solution to the issue today is to use relative URL
paths in your svn:externals definition, so that it doesn't contain
the hostname. This requires all clients to upgrade to at least
Subversion 1.5.
http://subversion.tigris.org/svn_1.5_releasenotes.html#externals
------------------------------------------------------
http://subversion.tigris.org/ds/viewMessage.do?dsForumId=1065&dsMessageId=1101069
To unsubscribe from this discussion, e-mail: [users-unsubscribe@subversion.tigris.org].
Re: tunneling & svn:externals issue?
Posted by lorenz <lo...@yahoo.com>.
> [regarding externals and multiple url shemes]
as of svn 1.5 you can use 'relative URLs' in the externals
definitions.
See http://svnbook.red-bean.com/nightly/en/svn.advanced.externals.html
for details
--
Lorenz
------------------------------------------------------
http://subversion.tigris.org/ds/viewMessage.do?dsForumId=1065&dsMessageId=1100706
To unsubscribe from this discussion, e-mail: [users-unsubscribe@subversion.tigris.org].
RE: tunneling & svn:externals issue?
Posted by gr...@yahoo.se.
One solution is to go into every individual repository and manually do a svn switch --relocate on each of the externals you want to use with a tunnel, without changing the svn:externals property.
This way the original project and those who don't need to use the tunnel can checkout and update normally, and those in need of tunneling just have to tweek their local repositories.
This is a horrible solution but it seems to me that it is the only way of doing it.
------------------------------------------------------
http://subversion.tigris.org/ds/viewMessage.do?dsForumId=1065&dsMessageId=1097040
To unsubscribe from this discussion, e-mail: [users-unsubscribe@subversion.tigris.org].