Subversion FAQ Redirect Page

The Subversion FAQ has moved to faq.html.

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• Why does this project exist?
  The FAQ has moved, please see faq.html#why.

• Is Subversion proprietary? I heard that it belongs to CollabNet.
  The FAQ has moved, please see faq.html#collab.

• Is Subversion stable enough for me to use for my own projects?
  The FAQ has moved, please see faq.html#stable.

• What is Subversion's client/server interoperability policy?
  The FAQ has moved, please see faq.html#interop.

• What operating systems does Subversion run on?
  The FAQ has moved, please see faq.html#portability.

• What's all this about a new filesystem? Is it like ext2?
  The FAQ has moved, please see faq.html#filesystem.

• I heard that Subversion is an Apache extension? What does it use for servers?
  The FAQ has moved, please see faq.html#apache-extension.

• Does this mean I have to set up Apache to use Subversion?
  The FAQ has moved, please see faq.html#need-apache.

• I run Apache 1.x right now, and can't switch to Apache 2.0 just to serve Subversion repositories. Does that mean I can't run a Subversion server?
  The FAQ has moved, please see faq.html#multiple-apachim.

• Why don't you do X, just like SCM system Y?
  The FAQ has moved, please see faq.html#feature-x.

• Why does the entire repository share the same revision number? I want each of my projects to have their own revision numbers.
  The FAQ has moved, please see faq.html#globalrev.

• Does Subversion have Changesets?
  The FAQ has moved, please see faq.html#changesets.

• When's the next release?
  The FAQ has moved, please see faq.html#release.

• Does Subversion support symlinks?
  The FAQ has moved, please see faq.html#symlinks.

• I need a high resolution version of the Subversion logo, where can I get it?
  The FAQ has moved, please see faq.html#logo.

• I have other questions. Where can I get more information?
  The FAQ has moved, please see faq.html#xxxxx.

• How do I check out the Subversion code?
  The FAQ has moved, please see faq.html#co-svn.

• How do I create a repository? How do I import data into it?
  The FAQ has moved, please see faq.html#repository.

• How do I convert an existing CVS repository into a Subversion repository?
  The FAQ has moved, please see faq.html#cvs2svn.

• What if I'm behind a proxy?
  The FAQ has moved, please see faq.html#proxy.

• My admins don't want me to have a HTTP server for Subversion. What can I do if I still want remote usage?
  The FAQ has moved, please see faq.html#paranoid.

• How do I manage several different projects under Subversion?
  The FAQ has moved, please see faq.html#multi-proj.

• How do I merge two completely separate repositories?
  The FAQ has moved, please see faq.html#multi-merge.

• Should I store my repository / working copy on a NFS server?
  The FAQ has moved, please see faq.html#nfs.

• Why is my repository taking up so much disk space?
  The FAQ has moved, please see faq.html#bdblogs.

• How do I set repository permissions correctly?
  The FAQ has moved, please see faq.html#reposperms.

• Why do read-only operations still need repository write access?
  The FAQ has moved, please see faq.html#readonly.

• How do I completely remove a file from the repository's history?
  The FAQ has moved, please see faq.html#removal.

• How do I change the log message for a revision after it's been committed?
  The FAQ has moved, please see faq.html#change-log-msg.

• How do I submit a patch for Subversion?
  The FAQ has moved, please see faq.html#patch.

• How can I do an in-place 'import' (i.e. add a tree of unversioned files to subversion, and convert the original tree into a working copy)?
  The FAQ has moved, please see faq.html#in-place-import.

• What is this "dump/load cycle" people sometimes talk about when upgrading a Subversion server?
  The FAQ has moved, please see faq.html#dumpload.

• How do I allow clients to authenticate against a Windows domain controller using SSPI authentication?
  The FAQ has moved, please see faq.html#sspi.

• I don't like the ".svn" directory name, and prefer "SVN" or something else. How do I change it?
  The FAQ has moved, please see faq.html#adm-dir.

• How do I change the case of a filename?
  The FAQ has moved, please see faq.html#case-change.

• I can't use tags to merge changes from a branch into the trunk like I used to with CVS, can I?
  The FAQ has moved, please see faq.html#merge-using-tags.

• Why doesn't the $Revision$ keyword do what I want? It expands to the file's last-changed revision, but I want something that will expand to the file's current revision.
  The FAQ has moved, please see faq.html#version-value-in-source.

• Does Subversion have a keyword which behaves like $Log$ in CVS?
  The FAQ has moved, please see faq.html#log-in-source.

• I have a file in my project that every developer must change, but I don't want those local mods to ever be committed. How can I make 'svn commit' ignore the file?
  The FAQ has moved, please see faq.html#ignore-commit.

• When I access a repository using svn+ssh, my password is not cached in ~/.subversion/auth/. How do I avoid having to type it so often?
  The FAQ has moved, please see faq.html#ssh-auth-cache.

• How can I set certain properties on everything in the repository? Also, how can I make sure that every new file coming into the repository has these properties?
  The FAQ has moved, please see faq.html#auto-props.

• How do I determine which version of Berkeley DB a repository is using?
  The FAQ has moved, please see faq.html#divining-bdb-version.

• My repository seems to get stuck all the time, giving me errors about needing recovery (DB_RUNRECOVERY). What could be the cause?
  The FAQ has moved, please see faq.html#permissions.

• Every time I try to access my repository, the process just hangs. Is my repository corrupt?
  The FAQ has moved, please see faq.html#wedged-repos.

• Every time I try to run a svn command, it says my working copy is locked. Is my working copy corrupt?
  The FAQ has moved, please see faq.html#wedged-wc.

• I'm trying to commit, but Subversion says my working copy is out of date?
  The FAQ has moved, please see faq.html#wc-out-of-date.

• I just built the distribution binary, and when I try to check out Subversion, I get an error about an "Unrecognized URL scheme." What's up with that?
  The FAQ has moved, please see faq.html#unrecognized-url-error.

• I'm getting errors finding or opening a repository, but I know my repository URL is correct. What's wrong?
  The FAQ has moved, please see faq.html#db-recover.

• When I run `configure', I get errors about subs-1.sed line 38: Unterminated `s' command. What's wrong?
  The FAQ has moved, please see faq.html#configure-sed-error.

• I'm having trouble building Subversion under *NIX with BerkeleyDB 4.2.x What should I do?
  The FAQ has moved, please see faq.html#linux-bdb42-build.

• I'm having trouble building Subversion under Windows with MSVC++ 6.0. What should I do?
  The FAQ has moved, please see faq.html#windows-msvc-build.

• How can I specify a Windows drive letter in a file: URL?
  The FAQ has moved, please see faq.html#windows-drive-letter.

• VS.NET/ASP.NET seems to have a problem with the ".svn" directory name. What should I do?
  The FAQ has moved, please see faq.html#vs-asp-net.

• I'm having trouble doing write operations to a Subversion repository over a network.
  The FAQ has moved, please see faq.html#write-over-dav.

• Under Windows XP, the Subversion server sometimes seems to send out corrupted data. Can this really be happening?
  The FAQ has moved, please see faq.html#windows-xp-server.

• What is the best method of doing a network trace of the conversation between a Subversion client and server?
  The FAQ has moved, please see faq.html#ethereal.

• Why does the svn revert require an explicit target? Why is it not recursive by default? These behaviors differ from almost all the other subcommands.
  The FAQ has moved, please see faq.html#revert.

• When I start Apache, mod_dav_svn complains about a "bad database version", that it found db-3.X, rather than db-4.X.
  The FAQ has moved, please see faq.html#db3db4.

• I'm getting "Function not implemented" errors on RedHat 9, and nothing works. How do I fix this?
  The FAQ has moved, please see faq.html#redhat-db.

• Why does SVN log say "(no author)" for files committed or imported via Apache (ra_dav)?
  The FAQ has moved, please see faq.html#no-author.

• I'm getting occasional "Access Denied" errors on Windows. They seem to happen at random. Why?
  The FAQ has moved, please see faq.html#windows-access-denied.

• On FreeBSD, certain operations (especially svnadmin create) sometimes hang. Why?
  The FAQ has moved, please see faq.html#freebsd-hang.

• I can see my repository in a web browser, but 'svn checkout' gives me an error about "301 Moved Permanently". What's wrong?
  The FAQ has moved, please see faq.html#301-error.

• I'm trying to look at an old version of my file, but svn says something about "path not found". What's going on?
  The FAQ has moved, please see faq.html#no-copy-history.

• Why doesn't HTTP Digest auth work?
  The FAQ has moved, please see faq.html#digest-auth.

• Compiling with xlc on AIX, I get compilation errors. What's wrong?
  The FAQ has moved, please see faq.html#xlc-compile.

• I checked out a directory non-recursively (with -N), and now I want to make certain subdirectories "appear". But svn up subdir doesn't work.
  The FAQ has moved, please see faq.html#nonrecursive-checkout.

• I am trying to use mod_dav_svn with Apache on Win32 and I'm getting an error saying that the module cannot be found, yet the mod_dav_svn.so file is right there in \Apache\modules.
  The FAQ has moved, please see faq.html#mod_dav_svn-win32.

• Why aren't my repository hooks working? They're supposed to invoke external programs, but the invocations never seem to happen.
  The FAQ has moved, please see faq.html#hook-environment.

• Why does my --diff-cmd complain about '-u'? I tried to override it with --extensions, but it's not working.
  The FAQ has moved, please see faq.html#diff-cmd.

• Ahhh! I just discovered that my Subversion client is caching passwords in plain-text on disk! AHHH!
  The FAQ has moved, please see faq.html#plaintext-passwords.

• I'm getting the error "svn: bdb: call implies an access method which is inconsistent with previous calls". How do I fix this?
  The FAQ has moved, please see faq.html#bdb41-tabletype-bug.

• I can't hotbackup my repository, svnadmin fails on files larger than 2Gb!
  The FAQ has moved, please see faq.html#hotcopy-large-repos.

• I cannot see the log entry for the file I just committed. Why?
  The FAQ has moved, please see faq.html#hidden-log.

• How do I run the regression tests in a ram disk?
  The FAQ has moved, please see faq.html#ramdisk-tests.

• What are all the HTTP methods Subversion uses?
  The FAQ has moved, please see faq.html#http-methods.

• What's a 'bikeshed'?
  The FAQ has moved, please see faq.html#bikeshed.

• What's a 'baton'?
  The FAQ has moved, please see faq.html#baton.

• What do you mean when you say that repository is 'wedged'?
  The FAQ has moved, please see faq.html#def-wedged-repository.