Subversion on Mac

Subversion (SVN) is the only versioning system that I use in my development toolbox. I also am a mac user (home and work). So while reading the comments on Raymond Camden’s blog entry about source control I see that at least one wayward Mac user need some direction with SVN.

Very easy to impliment and use. I did three things, though for most only the first two need to be done. I downloaded/installed SVN. I installed Subeclipse and I got it all working with Apache so I could access the repository via Webdav.

Download the Subversion package that Metissian put to gether. You don’t need to do any compiling it just installs and works. BOO-YAH!

Then head over to Subclipse and install it. very easy. The directions they give make it very easy on you. Oh YEAH!

Ok Done for those of you that are happy with getting it installed and using it with Eclipse.

I went an extra step and installed Fink on my machine so that I could get a version of Apache with the mod_dav_svn.so module installed. Well I used fink to install this package: libapache2-mod-svn. Once you do (warning you need a good amount of time to get this done) you need to edit the /sw/etc/apache2/httpd.conf file to have this set up:

LoadModule authz_svn_module /sw/lib/apache2/modules/mod_authz_svn.so
<location "/svn">
DAV svn
SVNParentPath "/Library/svnrepos"
AuthType Basic
AuthName "Subversion Repository"
AuthUserFile "/Library/svnconf/svn-auth"
Require valid-user
</location>

The “SVNParentPath” option can be switched with “SVNPath” if you will only have one repository. Me? I have a bunch. If you have any questions comment away I’d be glad to tell you more.