SVN (svnserve) virtual root --root= not recognized

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I'm running SubVersion 1.6.11 on RHEL6.

I added a new svn repo like so: svnadmin create /var/svn
I run svnserve as the svn user like: svnserve -d --root=/var/svn
The repository is setup like /var/svn/projectname/branch

I can check out files like this svn co svn+ssh://svnhost/var/svn/projectname localco
But this shouldn't work because svnserve is set with --root=/var/svn

I should be able to do svn co svn+ssh://svnhost/projectname localco
But get an error "svn: No repository found in 'svn+ssh://svnhost/projectname'"

Why is the virtual root not working?

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I suppose this could also fit ServerFault or Superuser, but since there are 15000 subversion tagged questions on here, I think this is the best place for it. – MattPark

2 Answers

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--root, if used, defines common parent of all repositories, served by pure svnserve. You have repo in root location, it's wrong

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svn+ssh handles the whole transaction including writing and reading the files so it ignores the --root parameter in svnserve.

Here is how to fix it over at serverfault --

Basically you just make svnserve into a script that calls svnserve with the proper variables.