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Microsoft Windowsįollow these procedures to set up an SVN client if the computer is running a Microsoft Windows operating system. Follow the appropriate procedures below for your computer's operating system. The exact steps to do this depend on the client computer's operating system. Configure the SSH client to connect to the A2 Hosting server using the private key.Generate a key pair for SSH public-key authentication, and then deploy the public key to the A2 Hosting server.Clearly, you will want to set up an SVN client so you can work with repositories from another computer.Ĭonfiguring an SVN client to work with repositories is a three-step process:

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You know how to create an SVN repository, but right now you can only check out and import files directly on the server. This article assumes that you will use public-key authentication with SSH and SVN.

Generate a key pair and use public-key authentication.

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Use a SSH password caching tool, such as ssh-agent on a Unix-like system, or Pageant on a Microsoft Windows system.To avoid the hassle of typing a password over and over, you can: Every time an SVN client connects to a repository, it must authenticate using SSH. SSH supports several authentication methods, including passwords and public-key authentication.

HTTP and HTTPS connections are not supported. To access SVN repositories on an A2 Hosting server from another computer, you must use an SVN client that supports SSH (Secure Shell). Replace username with your A2 Hosting account username, and replace repository with the name of the directory where you want to create the repository (if the directory does not already exist, the svnadmin create command creates it). To create an SVN repository, all you have to do is log in to your A2 Hosting account using SSH, and then type the following command: svnadmin create /home/ username/ repository See the More Information section below for links about how to use Subversion. It does not explain all of the features or how to use Subversion. This article only discusses configuring Subversion on an A2 Hosting account. It is installed on all A2 Hosting shared servers. Like all version control systems, Subversion enables you to track multiple revisions of files and directories. Subversion, also known as SVN, is a replacement for the Concurrent Versions System (CVS). Steps 1 and 2: Generating a key pair and configuring the SSH client to connect to the A2 Hosting server.

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