Historical errata for Pragmatic Version Control using Subversion

/usr/sbin/usermod -G subversion mike

should be

/usr/sbin/usermod -G subversion mike -a

the -a appends the group. i managed to screw my sudo user up while doing this because it was removed from the admin group because i didnt append the subversion group.

first paragraph of section 3.1: “adminstrator” should be
“administrator”.

first word in last paragraph of section 3.5: “addtion” should be
“addition”.

The examples (and the text) refers to the currency “Norwegian Krona”. The correct Norwegian currency is “Norwegian Kroner”. “Krona” is the Swedish currency.

I think “root> chmod g+S /home/svn-repos/db # g+t on BSD systems” might be switched around (g+S for BSD and g+t for linux?)

$ uname
Linux
$ chmod g+S test
chmod: invalid mode: `g+S’
Try `chmod —help’ for more information.

Re: using SSH to access repositories.

On Mac OS X 10.4, the suggested sticky bit setting:

chmod g+t /home/svn/repos/db

doesn’t have the desired effect. On committing, the attempt to move .current.tmp to .current fails, because the user doesn’t permission to overwrite the old .current file.

I think the correct command is:

chmod g+s /home/svn-repos/db

(that’s a lower-case s)

which will mean that new files will be owned by whoever committed them, but will belong to the same group as the other users accessing the repository. This will give write access to the other members of the subversion group, which is what’s desired.

I believe this should work for both Linux and BSD users.

Your use of usermod to add a group omits the -a option
to append the group to the users groups. As listed in the
book it replaces the existing groups list with this single group.

I see this has already been posted however the ‘-a’ should appear before the username in the command. This is how it should be:

/usr/sbin/usermod -G subversion -a mike

addtion should be addition

Page 77 of the PDF mentions lack of true rename support, but I just discovered a new addition to the svnbook that needs to be in this book as well.

svnbook.red-bean.com/nightly/en/svn.branchmerge.copychanges.html#svn.branchmerge.copychanges.bestprac.moves

The ramifications of this are great and can’t be glossed over.

The SVN Update command summary shows M as the action character a merged file, this should be G

After creating the REL-1.0.0-clientfix tag, the example shows a checkout of REL-1.0.0 not REL-1.0.0-clientfix in the “tag URL” This would not checkout the client-fix, but the original release branch.