Been trying to track down some issues with the new Subversion servers at work. They are setup to be accessed via https only, authentication provided by mod_auth_kerb. This works beautifully for doing Negotiate auth, however I’d been seeing some odd errors when it would fall back to Basic. I was seeing a bunch of replay [...]

Spent some time working with Subversion hooks last night to test svnsync and discovered something. If you wanna run sudo in a hook (don’t ask), make sure you call bash with the login param or it will be unable to decide what your uid is.

Came across SVK while looking for a way to mirror my subversion repos between this new server and my home network. According to their site, SVK “supports repository mirroring, disconnected operation, history-sensitive merging, and integrates with other version control systems, as well as popular visual merge tools”. It’s based on Subversion, has some damn promising [...]