I had some developers coming over complaining that svn was interpreting javascript files as binary and asking if I could fix it. At first it sounded simple, I expected some server side config in the repository where I could set these kind of things, but that's not the way it works... more »

In the face of blogging clients, xml-rpc servers, blogging APIs and tons of other kludge, here is how I use vim and svn to post on my pyblosxom based blog. more »

To simplify things it's common to place different projects under the same repository, and this can also come handy when different projects share a common one. But this is not always convenient, and sometimes even possible. To mitigate an increased management complexity of multiple repositories SVN offers a special property called svn:externals. We can then define that when checking a directory A under the repoX, the directory B from repoY will be pulled in as well. more »