Set up SVN server on docker

docker_svn-server.md

SVN on docker!

Quick notes on setting up a lightweight SVN server that is accessible via http (WebDav) and the svn custom protocol (svn://).

credits to :

• https://medium.com/@elle.florio/the-svn-dockerization-84032e11d88d
• @primetheus's docker volume updates https://gist.github.com/primetheus/daa5907544d103b598e9bd7aab2e0307#file-docker_svn-server-md

Pre-reqs

• Docker (see 'Install Docker for Mac')
• SVN (should be installed on your Mac by default)

Steps

This guide uses a lightweight svn-server docker image called elleFlorio/svn-docker. To set up

• 1 ) Create an svn-root volume to hold your svn-server repos on your docker host

  $ docker volume create svn-root

• 2 ) Run the docker container and set your working directory to /home/svn

  $ docker run -dit --name svn-server -v svn-root:/home/svn -p 7443:80 -p 3960:3960 -w /home/svn elleflorio/svn-server

• 3 ) Configure a username and password to access http protocol

  $ docker exec -t svn-server htpasswd -b /etc/subversion/passwd svnadmin <password>

• 4 ) Verify that the svn services is up and showing 0 repos available

  $ svn info svn://localhost:3960/
  
  svn: E170013: Unable to connect to a repository at URL 'svn://localhost:3960'
  svn: E210005: No repository found in 'svn://localhost:3960'

• 5 ) Log in to your svn server using URL: http://localhost:7443/svn. You should see an empty listing with "Collection of Repositories" string on top

• 6 ) Create a test svn repo using svnadmin command. verify repo exsits both in command line and web page

  $ docker exec -it svn-server svnadmin create Test

  $ docker exec -it svn-server ls -al Test
  
  total 16
  drwxr-xr-x   8 primetheus  staff  272 Jun  7 15:22 .
  drwxr-xr-x   3 primetheus  staff  102 Jun  7 15:22 ..
  -rw-r--r--   1 primetheus  staff  246 Jun  7 15:22 README.txt
  drwxr-xr-x   6 primetheus  staff  204 Jun  7 15:22 conf
  drwxr-sr-x  15 primetheus  staff  510 Jun  7 15:22 db
  -r--r--r--   1 primetheus  staff    2 Jun  7 15:22 format
  drwxr-xr-x  11 primetheus  staff  374 Jun  7 15:22 hooks
  drwxr-xr-x   4 primetheus  staff  136 Jun  7 15:22 locks

  $ svn info svn://localhost:3960/Test
  
  Path: Test
  URL: svn://localhost:3960/Test
  Relative URL: ^/
  Repository Root: svn://localhost:3960/Test
  Repository UUID: 626ee621-fc48-49e1-8733-3f850e997e67
  Revision: 0
  Node Kind: directory
  Last Changed Rev: 0
  Last Changed Date: 2017-06-07 15:22:54 -0500 (Wed, 07 Jun 2017)

Load test subversion repo

Let's load a test SVN repository, located here.

• Dump SVN repo to local Docker container

  $ docker exec -it svn-server sh -c "svnrdump dump https://svn.code.sf.net/p/ultrastardx/svn | gzip > /tmp/ultrastardx.dump.gz"

• Create new repo to host code

  $ docker exec -it svn-server svnadmin create ultrastardx

• Load in the SVN dump archive (make sure your dashes and quotes aren't funky here)

  $ docker exec -it svn-server sh -c "gunzip -c /tmp/ultrastardx.dump.gz | svnadmin load ultrastardx"

• Check to see that repo has been loaded properly

  $ svn info svn://localhost:3960/ultrastardx

Steps 1 & 2 should replace /Users/dpmex4527/ with ~/ so the home directory is dynamic

Thanks for the suggestion!

docker exec -it mysvn svnadmin create Test succeeds but when running svn info i get:

$ svn info svn://localhost:3960/Test
svn: E170013: Unable to connect to a repository at URL 'svn://localhost:3960/Test'
svn: E210005: No repository found in 'svn://localhost:3960/Test'

Also, after creating the repository, it does not show up on http://localhost/svn page (not sure if it should).

Running this on Ubuntu.

docker exec -it mysvn svnadmin create Test succeeds but when running svn info i get:

$ svn info svn://localhost:3960/Test
svn: E170013: Unable to connect to a repository at URL 'svn://localhost:3960/Test'
svn: E210005: No repository found in 'svn://localhost:3960/Test'

Also, after creating the repository, it does not show up on http://localhost/svn page (not sure if it should).

Running this on Ubuntu.

Same in my setup (Ubuntu, ENV S6_OVERLAY_VERSION=v1.22.1.0 GO_DNSMASQ_VERSION=1.0.7). Any idea?

Thank for this. i am not been able to complete the steps, when i run svn info svn://localhost:3960/ the console shows

svn: E170013: Unable to connect to a repository at URL 'svn://localhost:3960'
svn: E210002: Network connection closed unexpectedly

tried on macOs mojave

@AlpNek @ojvm @Tires ,It seems that the svn server port of the docker image has been changed from 3960 to 3690 somehow. So try this:
docker run -dit --name svn-server -v svn-root:/home/svn -p 7443:80 -p 3690:3690 -w /home/svn elleflorio/svn-server
and type svn info svn://localhost:3690/Test to inspect the demo repo

docker exec -it svn-server sh -c "svnrdump dump https://svn.code.sf.net/p/ultrastardx/svn | gzip > /tmp/ultrastardx.dump.gz".
This command keeps loading all revisions forever like
....

• Dumped revision 760.
• Dumped revision 761.
• Dumped revision 762. and goes on.
  How can I skip these revisions? How do I checkout only the last revision ? Please help. I'm not finding any docker image for windows svn.

The path/name for the repository needs to be changed when creating it in order for it to show up in SVN:

docker exec -it svn-server svnadmin create Test
becomes:
docker exec -it svn-server svnadmin create /home/svn/Test

I'm not sure why SVN isn't configured correctly, but after this my repositores showed up and were able to be accessed through the HTTP url:
svn info http://localhost/svn/Test

Got 2 issues after doing first commit

• svn commit -m "first commit"
  Solution: docker exec -t svn-server sed -i "s/= r/= rw/g" /etc/subversion/subversion-access-control

• svn: E000013: Can't open file '/home/svn/Test/db/txn-current-lock': Permission denied
  Solution: docker exec svn-server chown -R apache:apache /home/svn/Test

@bipinacellere thank you !