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VSS to Subversion to Clearcase

Published 08-31-2007 2:40 PM | jokiz

follow up to my post about visual source safe and subversion (which has a good google page rank), now i'm exploring rational clearcase. we are using clearcase at work and i can see a very close similarities with visual source safe. although the previous...

Filed under: version control, sourcesafe, subversion, clearcase

Single repository, multiple project setup

Published 04-25-2007 12:28 PM | jokiz

Our company is still using a single subversion repository tree for all our projects with the following classic structure. root --elcs ----trunk ----tags ----branch --hcs ----trunk ----tags ----branch One disadvantage of this setup is that all projects...

Filed under: subversion

Ankhsvn 1.0.1 now available

Published 02-21-2007 10:04 AM | jokiz

If you're like me who had a hard time with the blue icon color for modified files in Ankhsvn 1.0 final, just grab the latest bits of Anksvn here . The team has released a patch to change the modified icon to orange.

Filed under: visual studio, subversion

Installing subversion windows service

Published 02-15-2007 10:38 AM | jokiz

My task yesterday was to transfer our subversion server to our new server. I have the binaries for subversion 1.4.3 and our repository transferred and what's left is the creation of the windows service. i am using sc.exe to create the windows service...

Filed under: subversion

Refresh issue of AnkhSVN

Published 01-30-2007 9:24 PM | jokiz

There is a refresh issue on the version 1 release of AnkhSVN addin for visual studio last year (i thought it was already the RTM version 1.0 release, it was just RC4). if you are a tortoisesvn committer, you'll notice that the ankh refresh command at...

Filed under: visual studio, subversion

moving subversion repositories

Published 10-24-2006 5:45 PM | jokiz

our current subversion repository (using file system) has reached 3Gb and it was now hitting the maximum space of its partition where it is located. i decided to transfer it to another partition of our server. looking at the docs, i've found a procedure...

Filed under: subversion

holidays are ideal work days for build masters

Published 10-24-2006 5:43 PM | jokiz

it is currently a public holiday today (end of ramadan) and i decided to come to work in the afternoon to do some changes on our build server and subversion repository. you can't really do some changes on the development servers on regular working days...

Filed under: continuous integration, subversion

Limiting TortoiseSVN Show log entries

Published 09-12-2006 11:19 AM | jokiz

When you are using SVN Show Log, you'll have a list of the top 100 (default setting) logs/revision logs from Subversion. It may take some time to populate them if you already have a number of revisions in your current project but you have the option to...

Filed under: techie, tips, subversion

assemblyversion - revision number before build number

Published 08-17-2006 11:40 AM | jokiz

although msdn docs say that the proper format for assembly version is <major version>.<minor version>.<build number>.<revision> i was surprised that our current project is using a different format which is used by the nant build...

Filed under: .NET, continuous integration, subversion

subversion one click setup

Published 08-17-2006 11:09 AM | jokiz

i remember when i first set up subversion for my own projects and it was pretty messy, installing the service, etc. all are described in this blog post . months ago, rodel told me that there is a one click installer for setting up subversion and now that...

Filed under: version control, subversion

problematic ankh

Published 07-19-2006 10:32 PM | jokiz

i have encountered a lot of errors using ankh to checkin my changes with subversion for the past week. it's just that there are few updates on the development of ankh and tortoisesvn is more reliable. although i admit, it's a little tedious going to explorer...

Filed under: .NET, visual studio, version control, subversion

Error: Can't read file (subversion server path)file.tmp, End of file found

Published 07-12-2006 1:23 PM | jokiz

i was about to check in my changes last night but before that, i wanted to update my copy. i was presented with a dialog with a message of Error: Can't read file (subversion server path)file.tmp, End of file found i tried to do a clean up and update a...

Filed under: version control, subversion

Visual Sourcesafe vs SVN, AnkhSVN, TortoiseSVN

Published 05-26-2006 2:19 PM | jokiz

I have worked with used Microsoft Visual Sourcesafe and now in my current company, we are using the SVN-Tortoise-Ankh combo. One thing i noticed though is that teammates really have to communicate. Although we are just two in the team, in order to prevent...

Filed under: .NET, agile, version control, subversion