svnadmin create a new empty project repository in subversion (svn) in Linux

Using "svnadmin create" command, we can create new project repositories.

If you have installed subversion (used for version control) and looking for creating a repository inside that, you are at the right place.

Command

Command to create new project repositories inside subversion is svnadmin create.

svnadmin create repoPath

- repoPath has to be a path to a folder, if that folder does not exists; new folder will be created.

Consider following examples

svnadmin create /usr/local/svn/clients/MyProject

svnadmin create .

First command will create a repository inside "/usr/local/svn/clients/MyProject" while the second command creates a repository in your current directory. You can pick either of the above commands.

After creating the repository, you must alter access controls. For that open conf/svnserver.conf found inside newly created repository folder.

Common values to alter are;
anon-access
- access control for non authenticated users, so better to set it to none (anon-access = none)
auth-access
- access control for authenticated users, this must be set it to "read" or "write" (auth-access = read)