[SOLVED] SVN synchronization between multiple repositories

SVN synchronization between multiple repositories

We are using SVN and we have on-site and off-shore teams. SVN repository is currently in on-shore premises which means that connectivity from off-shore to SVN is very slow. We would like to setup and SVN at off-shore too. We would require the two SVN repositories to be in-sync. What would be the best practice to do this, any third-party product required?

Thanks!

Solution

Here you will need to setup an SVN master-slave setup.

Basically:

The slave server has his own local repository and can serve local read requests
Write requests to the slave server have to get forwarded to the master server (using WebDAV proxy or post-commit hooks, I would go with the second one)
The slave repository has to be synchronised with the server's repository (using svnsync)

This blog post is a good starting point if you prefer to use WebDAV, while this post will show you how to setup a synchronisation using post-commit hooks.

Note that you will also have to modify the default pre-revprop-change hook script on your slave server as svnsync will need to modify some properties directly.