Starvin’ Marvin

I was setting up a subversion repository for personal usage and I though it would be be nice to share the necessary steps for a simple ssh+svn access configuration for a Ubuntu based system. Beware that this is probably the simplest svn setup possible, but actually it mets my requirements: simple, fast and secure. So here it goes:

1. Install subversion package:

sudo apt-get install subversion

2. Add subversion group:

sudo addgroup subversion

3. Add users to this group:

sudo vim /etc/group
Find subversion group created and add yourself (and others) to the group.

4. Create basic directory structure and set permitions. Basic assumption are that main svn dir will be located in /home/svn/ and sample svn project will be called simply project

cd /home/
sudo mkdir svn
cd svn/
sudo mkdir project
sudo chgrp -R subversion project/
sudo chmod -R g+rws project/


5. And finally create your project:

sudo svnadmin create /home/svn/project/

Voila, it’s done! You can access it with the command:
svn co svn+ssh://[sshuser]@[hostname]/home/svn/project/
Happy versioning!