Subversion Questions

Ryan Roberts

Yep, never had a problem with it. Have been using it since 1.0 with some pretty big repositories. 2) Yep, though Ankhsvn is nice too, now they have worked round Sisual Studio's moronic .directory problem. 3) Never used one, command line and tortoise is good enough for me. Might want to have a look at trac[^] too, it's a superb integrated bug tracking / project management / wiki tool for subversion. Ryan

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brianwelsch

I started using SVN and Tortoise at home a few weeks back, and it's been good so far. BW

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Matt Newman

I've only used SVN from a developer side, never the admin side. Tortouise is pretty good, I have had some stability issues with it crashing when it isn't used but its not that bad. Matt Newman
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S Douglas

Rock solid, never had any issues 2) TortouiseSVN is great the only issues I have ever had is sometime it changes the icons of files that are under its control (very strange). I have not experienced any explorer slowdown. 3) Command line! SVN was originally written for *nix, where the command line is where you do everything. It works well enough; I have a script that runs in the windows scheduler to do backups. Link to the subversion book, it’s a handy reference tool. Version Control with Subversion[^]

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Andy Brummer

espeir wrote:

I see vss2svnmigrate, vss2svn and vss2svn2 on Tigris.

I'd search/ask on the subversion mailing list. It is active and I've always seen quick responses.

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Red Stateler

Thanks, I'll check that out.

Paul Watson

No problems, it manages all our code here at TSSG 2) It is 3) No idea. The command-line works fine. regards, Paul Watson Ireland Feed Henry!

Shog9 wrote:

eh, stop bugging me about it, give it a couple of days, see what happens.

Dario Solera

Monty2 wrote:

slows down the explorer a bit

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El Corazon

espeir wrote:

Is it completely stable? e.g. Has anybody experienced any file corruption?

Subversion is fully stable, VSS is "relatively stable" (as long as you never get a write error, never share across a network, backup, validate, and repair your archives regularly), Subversion is self-verifying on the transmission, VSS is a transmit and pray.

espeir wrote:

Is TortouiseVSN the best client tool?

It depends on what you are trying to do with it. I prefer Tortoise because I transitioned from TortoiseCVS, so it was easy. I know a few people who run off scripts so use the base Subversion command line stuff and never deal with GUIs. I can't speak for the 3rd. _________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb)

James R Twine

espeir wrote:

Is it completely stable? e.g. Has anybody experienced any file corruption?

It does (or did) have problems with very long path names, like around 8KB and higher, and/or very deep directory trees (~200 and deeper). I have been able to crash it by creating such paths. The system tends to be prome to blue-screening at some point in time after that. I have not (yet) reported it so the SVN team. [edit - beyond that, I like SVN...! :)] Peace! -=- James

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Janos Lerch

1. absolutely 2. We use Pushok SVN (based on Tortoise), which provides SCC. The integration with VS is fine. For compare, the Beyond Compare is the finest. 3. Use command line. IMHO

polarkreis

a) Yes, it's really stable. Our repository is around 7 GB big, no problems! b) Maybe ;-) To have an easy way for usage - yes, it's really good. To make scheduled job (e. g. nightly hotcopy for backups and so on) cmd line is the better choice. Note: The slowdown of MS Explorer is extrem in case of "recusrive overlapped symbols". You should turn of this options. Then it's pretty fast c) never used something like that, sorry. BR PolarKreis