Moving an svn repository to integrate with trac

February 2 2010 : posted under ubuntu svn trac

I just started on a project that was using trac and subversion but they weren’t integrated. I love the cross referncing trac provides. It can really help explain changesets and show how an issue was resolved.

The steps to add subversion to trac are

Stop people using the old repository
copy the repository files from one server to the other I used tar and scp
edit trac.ini to add the location of the respository
Trac and svn must be on the same server
run trac-admin resync
This imports all the svn history.

I enabled access to subversion via apache SSL while I could get access via the browser checking out code with different tools gave the follwoing errors

svn: OPTIONS of 'https://195.99.1.93/svn': 200 OK

svn: PROPFIND of '/svn': 405 Method Not Allowed

svn: Server sent unexpected return value (405 Method Not Allowed) in response to PROPFIND request for '/svn'

Thanks to http://techpulp.com/2009/01/webdav-405-method-not-allowed-in-porpfind/ I found out that my problem was an extraneous trailing slash in my Apache config!

I then ran svn relocate (right click on the repository using eclipse in the subversion perspective).

I moved Trac to SSL for good measure - changing the location on the task repository in eclipse was straightforward.

And as a finishing touch I customised Trac by adding a project logo - it goes in trac/htdocs/mylogo.png and is referenced in trac.ini as site/mylogo.png - I’ve failed this step before but actually read the docs this time.