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Overview

The Academic Computing Subversion hosting service is a tool that provides SEAS users, groups, and labs secure, manageable, and centralized access to Subversion repositories. These repositories can be public or private, and control can be managed as needed by their owners.

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Once your repository group has been created, we will send you an email with the command necessary to check out the administrative repository. For a repository group named "bigproject", the command would look like this:

svn co https://source.seas.harvard.edu/svn/bigproject/admin/

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You add new repositories to your repository group by adding new stanzas to the authz file and committing the changes. For example, to add a repository called "niftycode" to your "bigproject" repository group, you would add the following to your authz file:

[niftycode:/]
lars = rw

This grants read/write (rw) access to all of the niftycode repository to user lars. When you commit this change to the server, the server will create the niftycode repository if it does not already exist.

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To grant a user "alice" read access to your documents repository, you might modify the corresponding entry in your authz file from this:

[documents:/]
lars = rw

To look like this:

[documents:/]
lars = rw
alice = r

This gives alice the ability to view all of the documents repository. If instead you wanted alice to have access to only the unclassified directory of the repository, you would instead modify your authz file to look like this:

[documents:/]
lars = rw

[documents:/unclassified/]
alice = r

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If you will be collaborating with someone from outside of SEAS, you may to create a local account for them in your repository group. The htpasswd file is where you control local users and groups. The file is a list of lines of the form:

username:password

Where password is a password hash. You will typically manage entries in this file using the htpasswd program, which is part of a standard Apache install. If you do not have access to this program on your local computer, you can connect to login.seas.harvard.edu and generate entries there:

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Once you have created the user account, granting access is the same as described in the previous section. For example, you might modify your authz file to look like this:

[documents:/]
lars = rw
user@somewhere.com = r

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If you want to receive an email message when someone commits changes to a repository, you may set the seas:review property on the repository root directory to a list of email addresses. For example:

$ cd myproject
$ svn propedit seas:review .
...make your changes...
$ svn ci -m 'added reviewers'