Question

How can I configure the subversion server to hide the full repository path from the outside world?

For example, the repository lives under /home/svn/foobar/ … I want to access it via ssh as svn+ssh://[e-mail]/foobar.

Answer 1

Reading carefully through the official SVN documentation I have found that when accessing subversion over svn+ssh — then a separate svnserve process is spawned for every connection. Thus the trick is to

1. Rename svnserve to svnserve.bin
2. Create a file called svnserve

3. Add the following to its contents

   #!/bin/sh
   exec /usr/bin/svnserve.bin -r /home/svn "$@"
   

Thus the wrapper will be called everytime a server instance is needed. It will in turn init the server with a new root path.

Piece of cake!