Using Trac without subversion.

[Jonas Borgström]

It should be possible to use Trac without having a subversion repository. The wiki and ticket system alone can be useful.

[anonymous]

Definitely! I just wanted to replace bugzilla, not migrate my whole project to subversion. This is not modular.

[bryan@…]

Agree wholeheartedly! Without svn it would be excellent for sysadmins as a combined ticketing/documentation system.

[richard_c@…]

What is proposed as the storage mechanism for the wiki, if not SVN? SQL? Stacks of diffs? CVS? I don't see how "not using SVN" will help as such.

Why not build up some scripts and a bundled SVN client/libraries, using the FSFS SVN backend? The idea here is to encapsulate SVN, and Berkley DB, to the point where they become irrelevant as entities. Does it really matter what happens "inside" a wiki?

If the wiki grows large enough to out grow a generic back end, then manage it as the full-blooded service it has become (Berkley DB, and the rest of it).

[Christopher Lenz]

Subversion isn't being used to store the Wiki pages, they are stored in the SQLite database. Subversion is really only used in read-only mode, for providing views on the repositories.

[Christopher Lenz]

See TracPluggableModules.

[Eric Hopper <eric-trac@…>]

I did this with one Trac I set up because they were using Perforce as the version control system. So I just created an empty Subversion repository and point Trac at that. It was slightly annoying to have to set up Subversion on that machine and create an extra repository, but not that annoying.

[Christian Boos]

The web_ui refactoring made it possible to disable the version control related modules, within the trac.ini file:

[disabled_components]
trac.versioncontrol.web_ui = yes

What's left to be done is making the initialization of the SVN repository optional in trac-admin.

[dmbrucker@…]

skip svn initialization given '—none'

[Christian Boos]

(cmlenz: this won't be ready for 0.9b2)

[Christopher Lenz]

Postponing. This is also related to #2148.

[Christian Boos]

The current vc-refactoring branch (source:sandbox/vc-refactoring@2511) has this feature.

[Christopher Lenz]

The vc-refactoring branch has been merged in [2669], which allows Trac to be initialized without a Subversion repository. The specifics still need a bit of polish, but the basics are there now.