[TxMt] subversion usage through NFS

[Chris Thomas]

On Apr 3, 2007, at 8:43 AM, Rob McBroom wrote:

> On Apr 3, 2007, at 6:48 AM, Jon Hancock wrote:
>
>> I have an NFS share from my linux server and mount this on my Mac.   
>> This NFS share is an svn working copy and its repo is local to the  
>> same server.  So the svn url is file:///path_to_repo/trunk.
>> If I try to use the subversion bundle in TextMate, it tries to use  
>> direct file access to the repo instead of svn+ssh access.  Is there  
>> a way I can let TextMate know to use svn+ssh for this working copy?
>
> The working copy itself remembers the URL that was used to check it  
> out, so if it was checked out local on the machine, then mounted via  
> NFS, it will always try to interact with the repository using  
> `file:`. Check for yourself by going into one of the working copy's  
> directories and
>
>    grep url .svn/entries
>
> What you'll have to do is make sure you can SSH from the linux  
> server back to itself (assuming you want to still be able to use the  
> same working copy on the server), then remove or relocate the  
> current working copy and check out a new one via `svn+ssh:`. Whether  
> you check it out from the remote machine or from your Mac with it  
> mounted via NFS shouldn't matter at that point.

'svn switch --relocate'

Chris