[SVN-3283] Add a lightweight --virtual-host feature to svnserve

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: trunk
• Fix Version/s: 1.8.0
• Component/s: svnserve
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Bert Huijben
• Created: 06/Sep/08 21:26
• Updated: 27/Oct/18 16:28
• Resolved: 12/Nov/12 13:46

Description

Quick idea: super-lightweight virtual host support for svnserve.

Currently, subversion/svnserve/serve.c(find_repos) just skips over the
given hostname.

Proposal: if you run

$ svnserve -r /svn-servers --virtual-host

then svn://my.server.org/some/repo looks for a repo at
/svn-servers/my.server.org/some/repo.  You perhaps would fill your -r
path with symlinks.

The hostname would not contain slashes by definition and would be
explicitly checked to make sure it isn't "." or "..".

I suspect the patch comes in at under 30 lines, mostly command-line processing.

Seem worthwhile?

http://svn.haxx.se/dev/archive-2008-07/0703.shtml

Issue Links

• is duplicated by: SVN-2941 Add virtual hosting support to svnserve