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By: One of the Wolves » Ruby Subversion Bindings: Better Documentation…

One of the Wolves » Ruby Subversion Bindings: Better Documentation… — Sat, 22 Dec 2007 19:55:12 +0000

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By: js_

js_ — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 21:11:27 +0000

it is supposed to be something like:

provider = Proc.new do |cred, realm, default, may_save, pool|
simplecreds = Svn::Ext::Core::Svn_auth_cred_simple_t.new
simplecreds.username = “username”
simplecreds.password = “password”
simplecreds
end

cb.auth_baton = Svn::Core.auth_open([Svn::Client::get_simple_prompt_provider(provider,2)])

But it doesn’t work to me

By: brainopia

brainopia — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 15:40:43 +0000

how can i reproduce ’svn –force add .” through ruby bindings for subversion?

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By: Jacob

Jacob — Fri, 04 May 2007 13:09:02 +0000

Very usefull Brian, Anybody got any ideas about how I could pass a username and password in to that jumble?

It seems it needs to go through:
Svn::Core.auth_open([])

http://svn.collab.net/svn-doxygen/structsvn__auth__provider__object__t.html

By: Tim Coulter

Tim Coulter — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 15:12:03 +0000

Thanks Brian!

By: Brian Candler

Brian Candler — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 15:03:22 +0000

That got garbled for some reason, the last line should be:

puts < Status of node(#{url})
created revision = #{st.created_rev}
committed time = #{Time.at(st.time / 1_000_000)}
author = #{st.last_author}
size = #{st.size}
EOS

By: Brian Candler

Brian Candler — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 15:02:02 +0000

RA = Repository Access layer.

I’ve now managed to make something work, but I have little idea what I’ve actually done. I’ve ordered the Practical Subversion book which I gather documents the libsvn API, perhaps that will help.

# Cobbled together from
# http://www.meadowy.org/~gotoh/projects/remote-svn-plugin/wiki/SvnRaBinding
# http://svn.collab.net/repos/svn/trunk/subversion/bindings/swig/ruby/test/test_ra.rb
# and some guesswork

require ’svn/client’
require ’svn/ra’

url = ‘http://trac-hacks.swapoff.org/svn’
ctx = Svn::Client::Context.new
cb = Svn::Ra::Callbacks.new(ctx.auth_baton)
cb.auth_baton = Svn::Core.auth_open([])
cfg = Svn::Core::config_get_config(nil)
s = Svn::Ra::Session.open(url, cfg, cb)
st = s.stat(”, 1)
puts

By: Brian Candler

Brian Candler — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 13:46:55 +0000

Is there a separate API for accessing a remote subversion respository? Svn::Repos.open() seems to barf when given a http://…/ URL

[From Tim: Hmmm... There has to be, but I'm not sure what it is. You might muck around in the unit tests or the source code for the Ruby Subversion Bindings -- maybe the Subversion RA stuff? (I've yet to figure out what RA means...). I'm not sure. At worst, you may have to figure out how to send WebDAV commands to a WebDav+Subversion enabled server. It looks like there might be some following on this: http://www.google.com/search?q=ruby+webdav

I'd love to hear what you find out.]

By: Bill Horsman

Bill Horsman — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 16:20:34 +0000

Tim, this looks very valuable and just what I’m looking for. I hope you find time to contribute your Rails plugin. In the meantime, I’ll mess around with your wrapper and see what I can get working. – Bill

[From Tim: Bill, I'm definitely finding the time. The Subversion plugin is almost there -- once all the functionality I need is done, I'll release it to the public to get some feedback. Check back in the next two weeks (hopefully! ).]