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Thursday, January 27, 2011

Subversion

Subversion turns out to be a very powerful, yet simple tool.  The Windows tool TortoiseSVN adds commands to windows explorer menus when you right-click on files or folders.  These commands do everything from checking out a repository to committing changes made.  It also provides an icon to indicate the status of files while in windows explorer. 

The Ubuntu tool  RapidSVN is a GUI that has all the same features Tortoise provides, but it's done through a GUI instead of explorer menus.  Ubuntu also provides command line tools for maintaining an SVN repository.

Setting up a Subversion server was also quite simple.  I used VisualSVN server to set up a simple SVN server on my Windows machine.  After installing, it was simple to add a new repository, add a user, and connect to the repository using those new user credentials.

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