Subversion

Well, I just finished my wild-goose chase with Apache and subversion regarding a rather weird error. I recently reinstalled our subversion box, and ever since then I was unable to commit anything new to any of the repositories. Subversion told me this: 1 2 3 svn-client admin-scripts [1] > svn ci -m "Directories for Tivoli Storage Manager Scripts." svn: Commit failed (details follow): svn: MKACTIVITY of '/svn/admin-scripts/!svn/act/someid': 302 Found Apache didn’t say much about it either, besides this particular line: ...

Okay, so I ended up toying with subversion via WebDAV on SLES today (I know, I know .. it’s bloody Sunday). It wasn’t much of a hassle though, after reading this. Sure, I made a few errors at first (simply confused the logic behind " Location" and " Directory"), but after that plain subversion commits via WebDAV (thus utilizing Apache) worked fine. For POC or as a hint to myself, here’s where and what I needed to add/change: ...