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SVNService No Longer Needed with Subversion 1.4

October 24, 2006 by Jim · 17 Comments 

I'm reinstalling all my software (got a new PC at work - whoohoo!) and was digging around for SVNService - a wrapper that allowed you to run SVN as a Windows service. All the links I found on Google were dead and I thought I was hosed until I found this:

Windows Service Support for svnserve

svnserve can now be run as a native Windows service. This means that the
service can be started at system boot, or at any other time, without the
need for any wrapper code to start the service.

Please note this applies to 1.4 and I'm assuming all versions moving forward.

Here is what I ran (WinXP):

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  1. sc create svn.local binpath= "\"c:\program files\subversion\bin\svnserve.exe\" --service --root D:\svnrepo" displayname= "Subversion Repository" depend= Tcpip

Once you run this - you will need to actually start the service - either via the Windows Service GUI or hit the command line and do a 'net start/stop yourservicename'

Important Update: 12/14/2006

Ray Camden notes that you have to type in the command exactly as shown above - with a space after each equals sign:

Yes: option= [space] "value" option2= [space] "value"
No: option="value" option2="value"

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17 Responses to “SVNService No Longer Needed with Subversion 1.4”
  1. Jason Hoekstra says:
    November 2, 2006 at 2:04 pm

    Great, works for me!

  2. Brian says:
    November 8, 2006 at 3:14 pm

    Wow, thanks a bunch! I was poking around a week ago and hit dead ends like you did.

  3. David says:
    February 21, 2007 at 7:26 pm

    Thank you, just what I needed!

  4. Jan Helber says:
    April 4, 2007 at 9:09 am

    Thanks!!!

  5. Lars says:
    April 16, 2007 at 7:50 am

    For me it worked better with “%ProgramFiles%\Subversion\bin\svnserve.exe”, that way you don’t have to escape the “.

  6. Chrystal says:
    November 20, 2007 at 2:28 pm

    Thank you so much. Plain and simple instructions are so very helpful!

  7. Giuseppe Pace says:
    May 9, 2008 at 8:01 am

    Thanks you so much!!! ;)

  8. Tor says:
    May 15, 2008 at 11:59 am

    Make sure you include the spaces after the equals sign. I wasted about an hour because of this. Never thought spaces mattered that much…

  9. Jim says:
    May 15, 2008 at 12:08 pm

    @Tor – I’ve edited the post a bit to make the space issue a bit more clear.

  10. Max says:
    February 2, 2009 at 7:53 am

    Thanks a lot! This worked perfectly.

  11. Jordan says:
    October 14, 2009 at 10:05 pm

    svnserve.exe no longer takes –service as an argument. instead use –daemon.

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