Subversion for Debian
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Subversion is maintained by a team at:

  http://pkg-subversion.alioth.debian.org/


NFS and Repositories
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You should never host a BDB-format repository on an NFS volume: it can
lead to data corruption and data loss.  We recommend the svn://
(svnserve) or svn+ssh:// (ssh tunnel) access methods instead.

A FSFS repository can be hosted on NFS, but make sure you have the
'lockd' daemon (from the 'nfs-common' package) running on both client
and server.  See also this Subversion FAQ entry:

  http://subversion.tigris.org/faq.html#nfs


The umask issue
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If you are sharing BDB repositories between multiple users, you may
wish to use the 'svnwrap' script after setting proper permissions.
This sets 'umask 002' before running the real subversion binary.  See
'man svnwrap' for details.


Emacs and Subversion
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There are two packages that provide support for Subversion in Emacs:

* psvn.el:

  A PCL-CVS-style interface for Subversion.

* vc-svn.el:

  A Subversion backend for the Emacs VC system.  This is no longer
  included in the Subversion package; maintainership has been taken
  over by the Emacs project.  It will be included in Emacs 22, and is
  now available in the 'emacs-snapshot' package.  It is not currently
  in Xemacs.

  If you use Emacs 21 (vc-svn appears to be incompatible with Xemacs),
  you will need to manually install an older version of vc-svn.el from
  the Subversion site; the Emacs 22 version of vc-svn.el does not work
  with older Emacsen.  You can download it using Subversion itself:

    svn export \
      http://svn.collab.net/repos/svn/trunk/contrib/client-side/vc-svn.el@9195

  Place it in /usr/local/share/emacs/21.4/site-lisp/ or elsewhere in
  your autoload path.  Then ensure that 'SVN appears in the list of the
  custom variable vc-handled-backends.