(props to 'Pika Do' for pikado/alpine-svn)

Subversion + Apache2 Docker Image (based on Alpine Linux)

Alpine Linux + Subversion via Apache2's interface on port 80 for WebDAV (on the container)

Image special features:

SVNAutoversioning is turned on, to allow PUTs from non-Subversion clients to work (with default commit message)

Versions of key components

• Alipine Linux is presently v3.6
• Subversion is presently v1.9.7
• Apache is presently v2.4.27

Building it (instead of using the version on Dockerhub)

$ git clone [email protected]:subsyncit/alpine-svn-dav.git
$ cd alpine-svn-dav
$ docker build -t subsyncit/alpine-svn-dav .

Running it

Starting container with docker command:

$ docker run -d -P subsyncit/alpine-svn-dav

^ The container starts with the default account: davsvn (password: davsvn) and the default repository: testrepo

Alternates

$ docker run -d -e SVN_REPO=repo -P subsyncit/alpine-svn-dav

^ The container starts with the default account: davsvn (password: davsvn) and the specified repository: repo

$ docker run -d -e DAV_SVN_USER=user -e DAV_SVN_PASS=pass -P subsyncit/alpine-svn-dav

^ The container starts with the specified account: user (password: pass) and the default repository: testrepo

$ docker run -d -e DAV_SVN_USER=user -e DAV_SVN_PASS=pass -e SVN_REPO=repo -P subsyncit/alpine-svn-dav

^ The container starts with the specified account: user (password: pass) and the specified repository: repo

Host storage

Docker allocates an expanding sorage file to the container. The default for that is 50GB.

Using it

You need to take a note of the server address (it could have been overridden with a -p hostPort:guestPort option on the run command, but was not.

$ docker ps
CONTAINER ID        IMAGE                     COMMAND             CREATED             STATUS              PORTS                   NAMES
2f43a74191c0        subsyncit/alpine-svn-dav   "/run.sh"           5 seconds ago       Up 3 seconds        0.0.0.0:32768->80/tcp   clever_murdock

Then, in a new directory elsewhere:

svn co --username davsvn --password davsvn http://0.0.0.0:32768/svn/testrepo
cd testrepo
# the add/chg/commit, as usual

32768 was what you picked out of docker ps.

And in fresh directory somewhere (not the git-checkout of alpine-svn-dav), the magic:

echo "hello" > .greeting
curl -u davsvn:davsvn -X PUT -T .greeting http://0.0.0.0:32768/svn/testrepo/greeting.txt

Whereupon you can svn up back in the checkout to see it.

Editorial: MOD_DAV_SVN Commit messages suck!

`Autoversioning commit:  a non-deltaV client made a change to`

It would be nice if MOD_DAV_SVN could accept a header for a custom message. Source for that log message is here. In 2013 I made feature request to the Subversion team: SVN-4454, that is presently marked as 'Won't Fix'.

Refer http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.7/svn.webdav.autoversioning.html for canonical SVNAutoversioning info.