Access Methods from the Ubuntu Server Guide by OnWorks

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3.3. Access Methods

Subversion repositories can be accessed (checked out) through many different methods --on local disk, or through various network protocols. A repository location, however, is always a URL. The table describes how different URL schemes map to the available access methods.

Table 17.1. Access Methods

Schema	Access Method
file://	direct repository access (on local disk)
http://	Access via WebDAV protocol to Subversion-aware Apache2 web server
https://	Same as http://, but with SSL encryption
svn://	Access via custom protocol to an svnserve server
svn+ssh://	Same as svn://, but through an SSH tunnel

In this section, we will see how to configure Subversion for all these access methods. Here, we cover the basics. For more advanced usage details, refer to the svn book3.