svnwrap1

Usage

Overview

svnwrap is a simple shell script to work around permission problems when sharing Subversion repositories between multiple local users. svnwrap can be used either by specifying a particular subversion client command on the command line, or by invoking it by the same name as the desired client command, via a symlink.

svnwrap sets the umask to 002, then launches the appropriate subversion client command. For complicated reasons, this is needed when using the clients with BDB-format repositories, but not for FSFS-format ones.

Examples

To create a new BDB-format shared repository (note that FSFS-format shared repositories should also be created this way):

svnwrap svnadmin create --fs-type=bdb /path/to/repo
chgrp -R shared_group /path/to/repo

The following line in /etc/inetd.conf can be used to serve svn:// URLs:

svn stream tcp nowait my_svn_user /usr/bin/svnwrap svnserve svnserve -i -r /srv/svn

The following commands enable use of svnwrap for local file:/// and remote svn+ssh:// URLs:

ln -s /usr/bin/svnwrap /usr/local/bin/svn
ln -s /usr/bin/svnwrap /usr/local/bin/svnserve

svn is used for local file:/// URLs, and svnserve is invoked by remote users of svn+ssh:// URLs.