Vadim's Notes

Setting up Subversion on OS X

Setting up Subversion repository server, using its svnserve daemon, is a piece of cake:

• Get .dmg download from Subversion official website and install it.
• Create a user which would own Subversion repository files, or use existing www user.
• Create the repository. I created mine under /var/svn:

  sudo mkdir /var/svn
  sudo svnadmin create /var/svn/repo
  find /var/svn/repo | xargs sudo chown www:www

• Edit /var/svn/repo/conf/passwd to set up users and passwords.
• And a bit the trickier part - set it up to run under launchd. For that, create org.tigris.subversion.svnserve.plist file in /Library/LaunchDaemons. The template is at TextSnippets site.
• Punch a hole in firewall for port 3690 if you want access from other machines.