Can I use a tortoise SVN repository on Linux, which is synchronized/distributed using dropbox without dumping?

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On Windows Vista I use Tortoise SVN, and the SVN repository is backed up using dropbox. I have another machine which is running Ubuntu, and has the recent version of the SVN repository.

I would like to update the repository while working in Linux. I would like to use the command line to commit and checkout files from the repository initially created with Tortoise SVN, but I would like to do this without having to dump and load the whole repository which is quite large (~1GB).

Or would it be much wiser to move to a distributed version control system and end all these issues? I thought that using tortoise HG / GIT, on bitbucket could possibly be a solution.

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You are doing it wrong and it seems that you are confusing Working Copy and Repository terms! I'd like to note that svnadmin dump and svnadmin load are not related to your issue BTW.

TortoiseSVN repository is a regular Subversion repo. You can access the repository that's located on Dropbox both from Linux and Windows machines via file:// protocol.

The ultimate and correct answer is to install a SVN server so you could access your repositories from both machines. Or move your repositories to some private Subversion hosting, at least.