Is it possible to override the Subversion HTML pages?

Question

I have a subversion server, providing subversion access via Apache2 and mod_dav_svn

The system works fine and clients can access the repositories with SVN client such as TortoiseSVN etc.

Users can also access HTML renderings of the same URLs.

Can these renderings be over-ridden, or replaced? If so, how would i go about it?

Answer 1

You can by adding a SVNIndexXSLT directive in the <Location> of your repository in the httpd.conf:

<Location: /repository>
DAV svn
SVNPath /var/repository
SVNIndexXSLT "/svnstyle.xsl"
[...]
</Location>

With this directive, Subversion will generate an xml directory listing, instead of an html one, and you can style this xml listing any way you want in the specified xslt file.
Remember that the path you specify in the SVNIndexXSLT directive is an url of your webserver, the browser must have access to it to render the pages correctly.

Answer 2

You can use an xslt to configure the output. I.e see http://www.reposstyle.com

Answer 3

If you are after a different way of viewing your subversion repository via a web interface, I'd suggest looking into Trac (http://trac.edgewall.com). You can even view Trac's own Subversion repository at http://trac.edgewall.org/browser.

I'm not sure if it's possible to skin the Subversion browser itself without digging into the Trac code, but the overall Trac look and feel can certainly be modified, as was done by the Maia Mailguard project at http://maiamailguard.com/maia/browser.