SVN

Due to the upgrade of the subversion server last week, some users may experience problems with merge/branch actions. These problems arise when a user only has access to a subdirectory of the repository. See http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=3367 for more information.

A workaround is to give the user read access to the root of the repository. You can limit the intrusion to your repository, by using a snippet in your access file similar to the one below:

## BEGIN svn 1.5 workaround
[/]
* = r
[/projects]
* =
[/tags]
* =
[/branches]
* =
## END svn 1.5 workaround

What is Version Control?

Version control is the art of managing changes to information. It has long been a critical tool for programmers, who typically spend their time making small changes to software and then undoing those changes the next day. But the usefulness of version control software extends far beyond the bounds of the software development world. Anywhere you can find people using computers to manage information that changes often, there is room for version control. And that's where Subversion comes into play.