SVN for the first time...

It's my first time to use SVN. It's funny how I first got acquainted with Visual Sourcesafe than this opensource tool. I think Most Java developers would typically get involved in SVN than VSS. But now though, I'm quite happy learning about SVN. It wasn't very hard to set it up with my IDE(RAD7/Eclipse), online instruction here. It was a little confusing at first(coming from the VSS background; where is the Set Working Folder menu? hehehe). I'll try setting up a local server for it at home so I could also use it on my personal projects.

One thing I noticed about it though... We currently have a local drive and a network drive. We were instructed to put our files on the network drive because it has a backup. However, when I tried Checking out on the network drive, the icons(status) didn't show up. When I tried checking out again on my local drive, the icons showed up. So I decided to use the local drive anyway since the source is technically, also backed up on the repository.

Published 01-08-2008 1:21 AM by lamia
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Tuesday, January 08, 2008 2:18 AM by bonskijr

# re: SVN for the first time...

svn using the berkeleydb has issue with network drive ata..

you can setup a source control server(or host it) by either running the svnserve(daemon) or using the newer svnservice which runs as a windows service.. so that you can use the svn://hostname protocol..

Tuesday, January 08, 2008 2:20 AM by cruizer

# re: SVN for the first time...

hey, be thankful you've "upgraded" to Subversion :) Visual SourceSafe is a totally brain-dead way of doing source control :P

Tuesday, January 08, 2008 6:04 AM by lamia

# re: SVN for the first time...

@cruizer

Oh hell yeah I am thankful! Very, very, very thankful! XP

We're using Tortoise SVN as our client/interface other than the Eclipse plugin.

@bonskijr

Thanks for the tip! That should come in handy!

Tuesday, January 08, 2008 5:20 PM by bonskijr

# re: SVN for the first time...

another thing is also to just use collabnet subversion setup for ease of setup of svn server(no need to configure the service etc..) or use visualsvnserver to manage your svn server

all of the above are free.. enjoy