If you’re using SVN to control your web application, your certainly need to deny access to .svn sub-directories. With Apache2 <DirectoryMatch “^/.*/\.svn/”> Order allow,deny Deny from all </DirectoryMatch> With lighttpd $HTTP[“url”] =~ “/\.svn/” { url.access-deny = ( “” ) }
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Retrieve file from svn
Sometimes you need to retrieve a single file from SVN without doing a checkout on the repository. SVN provides the svn cat to output the content of a file. You can redirect the output to get the file as : svn cat https://svn.mydomain.com/project/folder/file.ext > file.ext You can also use a simple shell script to do …