Liam Donaldson wrote:
> I have tried to get this info by reading through the
> docuemntation but it was not obvious to me.
>
> My SVN repository is on a remote server running under
> unix. I access it through a web address https://. I
> access this from TortoiseSVN on a Windows machine.
>
> Can I set up ViewVC on my Windows machine to provide a
> web access to the repository? Or is this not the way
> it needs to be set up?
ViewVC prefers to have direct access to the repository (and in fact, *must*
have that for CVS repositories), but there does exist experimental support
for remote Subversion repositories. Enabling this is a fairly simple --
just use the URL of the repository where you would use its path in the
svn_roots configuration options (sorry, you can't use root_parents for
remote repositories because Subversion doesn't expose a repository-listing
repository access API).
What you should expect:
* Near parity with local-access Subversion in terms of functionality
* Known shortcomings:
- file sizes aren't reported everywhere
- the "revision" view lacks/botches some information
- she ain't the fastest horse on the track...
* Lack of configury for dealing with the intricacies of remote access.
If the auth credentials and such you need to access the remote
repository aren't cached in ~VIEWVC_USER/.subversion (where VIEWVC_USER
is the system user as whom ViewVC runs), stuff won't work.
--
C. Michael Pilato <cmpilato@xxxxxxxxxx>
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