# Subversion only on server **URL:** \ **Category:** Ansible Project\ **Created:** [July 24, 2014, 7:03pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/subversion-only-on-server/15770 "2014-07-24T19:03:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Mauricio\_Tavares](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b5e925/32.png) [@Mauricio\_Tavares](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Mauricio_Tavares)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2014, 7:03pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/subversion-only-on-server/15770/1 "2014-07-24T19:03:50Z")
If I am storing templates and other files in subversion, does the client need to be able to reach the svn server or can I just have the ansible server grab files from svn server and feed them to client? ---
**Author:** ![Michael\_DeHaan1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5e9695/32.png) [@Michael\_DeHaan1](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Michael_DeHaan1)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2014, 10:48pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/subversion-only-on-server/15770/2 "2014-07-24T22:48:33Z")
Could go either way. If you had a pattern like so: - hosts: localhost tasks: - svn: … - hosts: webservers tasks: - synchronize: … You could do a local checkout to the server once and then blast it out, rather than have every server connect to SVN directly. unarchive would be another alternative if you had a tarball rather than synchronize, which is a wrapper around rsync. ---
**Author:** ![Mauricio\_Tavares](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b5e925/32.png) [@Mauricio\_Tavares](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Mauricio_Tavares)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2014, 9:51am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/subversion-only-on-server/15770/3 "2014-07-25T09:51:25Z")
> Could go either way. > > If you had a pattern like so: > > - hosts: localhost >   tasks: >      - svn: ... > > - hosts: webservers >   tasks: >      - synchronize: ... > > You could do a local checkout to the server once and then blast it out, > rather than have every server connect to SVN directly.        I would prefer doing that; it would be much more efficient than connecting every client to SVN. When I first read [http://docs.ansible.com/subversion\_module.html](http://docs.ansible.com/subversion_module.html) I thought you could only use subversion by installing it on the client. > unarchive would be another alternative if you had a tarball rather than > synchronize, which is a wrapper around rsync.       I will need to check that; may not be what I want to use here but it is worth checking for a future task.