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    <title>Running a Subversion Server on Windows</title>

    <description>How to run a Subversion server on Windows circa 2009</description>

    <category>Programming</category>

    <category>Source control</category>

    <category>Legacy blog posts</category>

    <category>Subversion</category>

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        <originalDate>2009-06-17T03:35:36.000Z</originalDate>

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<p>

  This needs to be in more places on the internet. I'm sick of googling it every time I can't 

  remember the stupid command.

</p>

<ol>

  <li>Download the zipped up version of Subversion, and put it somewhere, say, <code>c:\lib\svn</code></li>

  <li>Create your subversion repository: <code>c:\lib\svn\bin\svnadmin create c:\path\to\repo</code></li>

  <li>

    <p>Type this, and the equals sign spacing is <strong>extremely</strong> intentional:</p>

    <glacius:code lang="dos"><![CDATA[sc create subversion binpath= "c:\lib\svn\bin\svnserve.exe --service --root c:\path\to\repo" start= auto depend= Tcpip displayname= "Subversion Server"]]></glacius:code>

  </li>

  <li>Type this: <code>c:\lib\svn\bin\svn info svn://localhost</code></li>

  <li>Profit.</li>

</ol>

<p>If you see this:</p>

<glacius:code lang="plaintext"><![CDATA[Path: localhost

URL: svn://localhost

Repository Root: svn://localhost

Repository UUID: b2faa4b0-80f5-4142-907f-0accf209a4de

Revision: 0

Node Kind: directory

Last Changed Rev: 0

Last Changed Date: 2009-06-16 14:01:41 -0700 (Tue, 16 Jun 2009)]]></glacius:code>

<p>a winner is you.</p>

<p>

  If you suck and screwed it up, delete the service by running 

  <code>sc delete subversion</code>.

</p>