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General Settings for your SVN in Assembla
General Settings for your SVN in Assembla
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Written by Toshi Dávila
Updated over a month ago

In this article you will learn how to change your repository title and add a custom name in your URL among other settings.

To access to this page, you must be an owner or a member with ALL permissions (learn more about roles and permissions). To get here, go to your Assembla SVN repository > Settings > General Settings.

Configuring your SVN general settings

Setting an informative title

The default tab name is "Source/SVN". You can add a new name to replace the SVN portion of the tab name for better identification of your repos. For example, if you input ClientName to the Title field, the tab name is Source/ClientName.

Adding a unique repository name

You can rename your SVN repository so that it has a more intuitive name by going to your settings link on your SVN tab, and then changing the Repo name.

If you update this field, you can rename your SVN repository's secondary name. It is recommended that you also update the Title field to the same value so that you can identify the SVN repository in your space easily as well.

Note: This does not change your repo's URL. To change the URL of the repository, use the following these steps:

  1. Back up your repositories.

  2. Delete the repos from your space.

  3. Edit your space URL name.

  4. Import your repos back into your space.

For more information on how to edit your space URL, check out Rename & Edit Space Names.

Specifying a Trigger URL

This feature calls a specific Trigger URL after each commit. The server sends a request to the remote service specified in the URL. The result depends on what a user sets this service to do under this specific URL. For example, you can use GET URL after each commit to trigger a build.

Enabling the ability to change the svn:log propery for existing revisions

Check Enable changing svn:log property for existing revisions to forbid changing any other property.

Enabling the Comments subtab

Check Enable Comments subtab to add a subtab called Comments under the Source/SVN tool. This allows you to separately display comments that you add through Changesets.

Disabling commit events (import mode)

If the Disable commit events box is checked, the stream is not updated on commits. Ticket comments about new commits to the repository are not created on referenced tickets.


If you have any questions or need assistance, please email us at support@assembla.com.

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