Re: [phpGroupWare-developers] vfs with svn backend

[Benoit Hamet]

Hi all,

Sorry for the delay, was outside the known world ...

Dave Hall a écrit :
> On Mon, 2008-05-12 at 10:01 +0200, Olivier Berger wrote:
>> Le samedi 10 mai 2008 à 19:07 +0200, Sigurd Nes a écrit :
>>> Hi all
>>>
>>> Is the svn backend working (class.vfs_dav.inc.php)?
>>>
>> You meant DAV backend... SVN offers a DAV interface... but there are
>> differences in DAV which is a standard and SVN which offers a DAV
>> interface... but also different other ways to contact it.
>>
>> AFAIK the SVN revision control and the DAV DeltaV version management
>> protocols are not really fully equivalent, btw.
>>
>> IIRC Benoît (Caeies) knows about the DAV VFS cos he worked on that in
>> the old days when we hired him.
> 
> I remember this.  I also thought that an INT intern worked on adding svn
> support to the VFS, which extended the dav code.  This work was also
> merged by Benoit IIRC :)
Yes, I work a little bit on it, and work with the INT intern to
integrate his works back in the phpGW trunk.

So, As Olivier already suggests, the svn is only supported through its
http interface ... sorry for that, but that was the easiest (I mean, not
using system call to the svn binaries). So you need to use apache2 and
the svn module for being able to use it. Be carefull, if you try to use
it with the file manager, you will have to add the "autocommmit"
feature. It's built on top of dav system, so inherits of some drawbacks
(it's slow) but some good things, like working on another distant
repository ... I encourage people to use it over https to avoid password
leak ...

What about 409 ? I guess it's because your server is not configured to
access your svn repository using the svn/dav protocol ...

I should be able to help you a little bit more Wednesday if you don't
find the answer before :).

Regards,

Caeies.