How to manage project using tortoise svn?

Question

My Goal

I want to modify wordpress project as per my needs. I also want to record the code difference i made in the project. That is my goal.

This is what i done so far

• I installed recent version of tortoisesvn.
• I'm using windows 7 and i have installed wampserver too
• I created a folder called wordpress in C:/wamp/www
• So C:/wamp/www/wordporess is now the absolute path of my wordpress directory. I can able to access it via
  http://localhost/wordpress
• I right clicked on the wordpress directory and created checkout using this repository url http://core.svn.wordpress.org/trunk/
• Everything successful so far. I'm so confused about the next step

When i right click wordpress and open repository browser it actually list everything from http://core.svn.wordpress.org/trunk/ But i need an environment like trunk,tags,branches in my local directory. I tried by creating checkout on a empty directory(test) by applying url like http://localhost/test but i see some error like redirect cycle detected for url http://localhost/test

Can anyone help me? Thanks

Answer 1

This can be fixed on the server side in Apache by setting DocumentRoot to something other than the path containing the SVN repositories (preferably an empty directory).

Answer 2

I'm running into the same problem as well.

After some experiments I think it should be caused by following procedure:

( if test is a directory under your web root )

1. svn client remove the trailing slash for some reason. so for example if you type svn list http://localhost/test/ then the actual request url will be http://localhost/test ( no trailing slash! ).

2. The http server receive this request and found that test is not file but a directory. so it will send a redirect response to tell client to visit http://localhost/test/ ( has slash) .

3. the svn client go on step 1 so that finally causing infinite redirect loop....

You can try another non-exist directory like 'nonexist' or a file file to test as well which will returen "Unable to connect to a repository at URL 'http://localhost/nonexist' ..."

Answer 3

In that case you need to do the checkout from the root and not from the trunk

like http://core.svn.wordpress.org

Advise you to read word press documentation for detail how they are maintaining there structure and other things.

1. Wordpress-Using_Subversion
2. Updating_WordPress_with_Subversion