Creating a New SVN Repository

Steps to Create a New Subversion Repository

1. Decide on a location for the new repository, making sure it can be accessed by your users, and create it using the svnadmin command: 

> svnadmin create </path/to/repo/reponame>

2. Edit the </path/to/repo/reponame/conf/svnserve.conf file.  

Uncomment the 'password-db=passwd' line;

Uncomment the 'authz-db=author' line.

3. Edit the <path/to/repo/reponame/conf/passwd> file.  Add a line for each user under the '[users]' tag with the syntax 'mainUser = <password>'.

4. Edit the <path/to/repo/reponame>/conf/authz file.  Add a line '[/]' ("/" means permission to users at the roots of the repositories; see http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.8/svn.serverconfig.pathbasedauthz.html for further details on Path-Based Authorization), and under that line for each user: '<username> = rw', e.g.:

[/]
user1 = rw
user2 = rw
userN = rw

If you want to give equal access rights to all users, you can use ' * = rw', e.g.:

[/]
* = rw

5. Start the svnserve daemon.

> svnserve --daemon -r '<path/to/repo>'