Administrating Subversion: Adding and Removing Users

Adding and removing users to a Subversion repository is quite a straightforward process, just do the following:

You'll find a folder called "repos" in your filesystem which contains the different repositories you've created. You have to access the repository you need a new user's access to (let's call it myRepository) and add his/her entry to the "myRepository/conf/passwd" file under [users] in the format "newUsername = newPassword", save the file and exit.

To do this, you can simply type "sudo gedit /repos/myRepository/conf/passwd" and add your entry, save the file and exit.

Subversion Client on Ubuntu Gutsy

Subversion is one of the most famous VCS (Version Control System) that supports both version control models; the copy-modify-merge and the lock-modify-unlock ones, and my favorite Subversion clients is called Work Bench; very user friendly and fast, the best one I've met till now and it's available in the official Ubuntu repositories, here is how you can get it:

1. Open the terminal and type: "sudo apt-get install svn-workbench"
2. If you don't find its launcher in Applications>Programming (in older versions of Ubuntu), you can run it directly from the terminal by typing "svn-workbench" or create a launcher in the menu by yourself by right clicking "Applications">Edit Menus, select Programming and click "New Item", customize the launcher as you wish, but you must fill in the field "Name" and "Command" at least, type "svn-workbench" in the "Command" field.