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Feature #4273

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SCM command availability automatic check in administration panel

Added by Anton Andriyevskyy almost 15 years ago. Updated over 13 years ago.

Status:
Closed
Priority:
Normal
Assignee:
Toshi MARUYAMA
Category:
SCM
Target version:
Start date:
2009-11-23
Due date:
% Done:

0%

Estimated time:
Resolution:
Fixed

Description

This feature request is based on forum's topic:
http://www.redmine.org/boards/2/topics/8609#message-8637

When running redmine as windows service, it's not guaranteed that users will have "svn" command available, especially on windows, and setting up access to repository ends with this error message:
http://i49.tinypic.com/v3o9c3.png

In order to simplicify administration process, I propose to check if "svn" command if available when they save settings:
http://i49.tinypic.com/x5cj08.png

If it's not, we have 2 options to ask user to make "svn" command available

1. Either by installing svn client on *nix

2. Or by installing svn client / server on windows and putting path to executable into PATH folder.

2.1. Maybe it's also good option to simply ask them path to svn executable on windows.

Also it's good point to note on this settings page that not all windows clients has svn.exe executable itself (for example, tortoisesvn client has no svn executable), so you must recommend to install SVN server with standard svn.exe available and which supports standard SVN commands (like tortoise svn does not) - as for me it will be just good tip for users that are not so familiar with servers, services and clients terminology, and so you will improve gui considerably and make settings more easy to understand and more user-friendly (while implementation is so simple).

p.s. I thinked about this issue because I lost 2 hours myself by setting up integration with svn over https and under windows server 2003.

Home makes sense,
Anton Andriyevskyy


Files

info.png (54.8 KB) info.png Toshi MARUYAMA, 2011-02-09 13:40
settings.png (29.5 KB) settings.png Toshi MARUYAMA, 2011-02-09 13:40
info-20110218.png (59.4 KB) info-20110218.png Toshi MARUYAMA, 2011-02-18 14:03
scm-info-view.diff (2.1 KB) scm-info-view.diff Toshi MARUYAMA, 2011-02-18 14:03
scm-info-view-select.diff (981 Bytes) scm-info-view-select.diff Toshi MARUYAMA, 2011-02-18 14:55
hg.png (11.5 KB) hg.png Toshi MARUYAMA, 2011-05-04 09:54
bzr.png (9.96 KB) bzr.png Toshi MARUYAMA, 2011-05-04 09:54
scm_checkboxes_admin.PNG (3.08 KB) scm_checkboxes_admin.PNG Etienne Massip, 2011-05-19 16:04
admin-repo.png (31 KB) admin-repo.png Toshi MARUYAMA, 2011-05-29 09:44

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