Hi everyone,

Once again, I bring you another useful Subversion-related tool. This time, I recently discovered a Trac plugin named RevtreePlugin. If you want to display your Subversion branches and revisions graphically inside of Trac, this is the plugin for you!

As I’ve noted before, I’m a FreeBSD ports tree committer now, so I absolutely had to build a port for this plugin. You can find the details of the port in FreshPorts, and if you’re using FreeBSD (you are, aren’t you?), install it like so:

You will be presented with some options to enable some display enhancers. Make sure to enable the mergeinfo enhancer, and you’ll see some interesting graphs if you’ve been merging a lot.

Happy Thanksgiving!

Hi folks,

I run across a lot of software utilities in my day job and as a FreeBSD ports tree committer. Recently, I wanted to generate a Subversion dump file from a repository, but I didn’t have access to the machine where it was housed. Since svnadmin dump requires direct access to the Subversion repository directory, I started looking around for another way.

After some online searching, I found rsvndump, and it works great! Here is an example use to fetch the first 10 revisions of the public TWiki Subversion repository:

Once you have a dump file, you can easily create a local Subversion repository and use svnadmin load to populate the new repository.

Of course, I’m now honor-bound to create FreeBSD ports for useful utilities like this if they don’t already exist. If you’d like to install rsvndump on FreeBSD, just do the following: