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I've just finished installing and implementing Subversion and TortoiseSVN to company Windows servers and a few local machines. These are excellant tools BTW. In doing the research for completing tis task I had to search a few sites/articles(One from CP, thanks Hans Dietrich:)) but I never came across an article that explained the entire step by step process in one go, i.e. installing SVN, setting it up as a service, setting up initial repositories w/ SVN and TSVN, and uploading the initial source code. I've written a rough draft of some user documentation, and I was wondering if y'all think this would be worthy of addition to the CP library. I was thinking it would be good for beginners, like me, to have a step by step guide to using these very useful tools( I love the versioning, it makes for a much better programming environment). I'd appreciate any feedback. Thanks,
An American football fan - Go Seahawks! Lil Turtle
Obviously there's interest in the article idea from the replies you've had already. And the question comes up often enough in the Lounge as to what version control system someone should use, how they should set it up, what client they should use to access it, etc. code-frog usually points people to his own experiences here[^], but he's already admitted he should write an article on it. (You should beat him to the punch. ;)) It might also be helpful to put a short introductory section in there explaining why you picked Subversion over other source control systems, (Subversion rocks... 'nuff said.) as that seems to be a question asked quite frequently as well. If nothing else, I'd like it just so I could have a quick link to point people at when the question comes up again. ;)
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I've just finished installing and implementing Subversion and TortoiseSVN to company Windows servers and a few local machines. These are excellant tools BTW. In doing the research for completing tis task I had to search a few sites/articles(One from CP, thanks Hans Dietrich:)) but I never came across an article that explained the entire step by step process in one go, i.e. installing SVN, setting it up as a service, setting up initial repositories w/ SVN and TSVN, and uploading the initial source code. I've written a rough draft of some user documentation, and I was wondering if y'all think this would be worthy of addition to the CP library. I was thinking it would be good for beginners, like me, to have a step by step guide to using these very useful tools( I love the versioning, it makes for a much better programming environment). I'd appreciate any feedback. Thanks,
An American football fan - Go Seahawks! Lil Turtle
Lil Turtle wrote:
and I was wondering if y'all think this would be worthy of addition to the CP library.
Yes! Marc
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I always wondetred if we couldn't have this "pending" status on CP. The article is submitted through the submission wizard, and you can get it through a specific URL, but it is not included in the category list, front page, search, newsletter etc., it is not votable, and maybe allow feedback only through direct mail.
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Obviously there's interest in the article idea from the replies you've had already. And the question comes up often enough in the Lounge as to what version control system someone should use, how they should set it up, what client they should use to access it, etc. code-frog usually points people to his own experiences here[^], but he's already admitted he should write an article on it. (You should beat him to the punch. ;)) It might also be helpful to put a short introductory section in there explaining why you picked Subversion over other source control systems, (Subversion rocks... 'nuff said.) as that seems to be a question asked quite frequently as well. If nothing else, I'd like it just so I could have a quick link to point people at when the question comes up again. ;)
Code-Frog has so much on his plate at the moment he could retire right now and get out of the business and have plenty of work left to finish until he turned 65.:sigh:
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Code-Frog has so much on his plate at the moment he could retire right now and get out of the business and have plenty of work left to finish until he turned 65.:sigh:
No worries, I'll try and do it justice.;) I would like to say thanks for your previous posts on the topic, they did help out a ton.
An American football fan - Go Seahawks! Lil Turtle
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I've just finished installing and implementing Subversion and TortoiseSVN to company Windows servers and a few local machines. These are excellant tools BTW. In doing the research for completing tis task I had to search a few sites/articles(One from CP, thanks Hans Dietrich:)) but I never came across an article that explained the entire step by step process in one go, i.e. installing SVN, setting it up as a service, setting up initial repositories w/ SVN and TSVN, and uploading the initial source code. I've written a rough draft of some user documentation, and I was wondering if y'all think this would be worthy of addition to the CP library. I was thinking it would be good for beginners, like me, to have a step by step guide to using these very useful tools( I love the versioning, it makes for a much better programming environment). I'd appreciate any feedback. Thanks,
An American football fan - Go Seahawks! Lil Turtle
Definitely!
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I've just finished installing and implementing Subversion and TortoiseSVN to company Windows servers and a few local machines. These are excellant tools BTW. In doing the research for completing tis task I had to search a few sites/articles(One from CP, thanks Hans Dietrich:)) but I never came across an article that explained the entire step by step process in one go, i.e. installing SVN, setting it up as a service, setting up initial repositories w/ SVN and TSVN, and uploading the initial source code. I've written a rough draft of some user documentation, and I was wondering if y'all think this would be worthy of addition to the CP library. I was thinking it would be good for beginners, like me, to have a step by step guide to using these very useful tools( I love the versioning, it makes for a much better programming environment). I'd appreciate any feedback. Thanks,
An American football fan - Go Seahawks! Lil Turtle
Definitely, I came across one article here on setting up Subversion for a single developer and found it to be excellent but wished it had included a bit about setting up the services (which I've got running now) and multiple users which I shall need in the near future so definitely. :-D Sooner the better ;P
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I've just finished installing and implementing Subversion and TortoiseSVN to company Windows servers and a few local machines. These are excellant tools BTW. In doing the research for completing tis task I had to search a few sites/articles(One from CP, thanks Hans Dietrich:)) but I never came across an article that explained the entire step by step process in one go, i.e. installing SVN, setting it up as a service, setting up initial repositories w/ SVN and TSVN, and uploading the initial source code. I've written a rough draft of some user documentation, and I was wondering if y'all think this would be worthy of addition to the CP library. I was thinking it would be good for beginners, like me, to have a step by step guide to using these very useful tools( I love the versioning, it makes for a much better programming environment). I'd appreciate any feedback. Thanks,
An American football fan - Go Seahawks! Lil Turtle
I would appreciate the article. I'm getting ready to set up the same thing at home.
This statement was never false.
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I've just finished installing and implementing Subversion and TortoiseSVN to company Windows servers and a few local machines. These are excellant tools BTW. In doing the research for completing tis task I had to search a few sites/articles(One from CP, thanks Hans Dietrich:)) but I never came across an article that explained the entire step by step process in one go, i.e. installing SVN, setting it up as a service, setting up initial repositories w/ SVN and TSVN, and uploading the initial source code. I've written a rough draft of some user documentation, and I was wondering if y'all think this would be worthy of addition to the CP library. I was thinking it would be good for beginners, like me, to have a step by step guide to using these very useful tools( I love the versioning, it makes for a much better programming environment). I'd appreciate any feedback. Thanks,
An American football fan - Go Seahawks! Lil Turtle
Did you set it up as web-accessible repository? That's something I'm keen to try/learn. Also I'm trialling RapidSNV client... no windows shell integration, but I really suspect TSVN is slowing down my system with the icon overlays etc (and it crashed every now and then).
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CP article: SmartPager - a Flickr-style pager control with go-to-page popup layer.
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Did you set it up as web-accessible repository? That's something I'm keen to try/learn. Also I'm trialling RapidSNV client... no windows shell integration, but I really suspect TSVN is slowing down my system with the icon overlays etc (and it crashed every now and then).
"For fifty bucks I'd put my face in their soup and blow." - George Costanza
CP article: SmartPager - a Flickr-style pager control with go-to-page popup layer.
A nice tidbit that seems to be lacking the documentation is how to optimize the overlays... uncheck everything on the page except "Fixed Drives" and add C:\* to your exclude paths... then if your local checkout is C:\source, add C:\source\* to your includes That seems to be the 99% rule of how most people setup their systems... of course if you have multiple drives, include them all in the exclude paths, and only include bonafide source directories. I've been using Tortoise SVN v1.4.3 and v1.3.8 constantly for about 2 weeks each now, on different machines (and networks) with both SVN and WebDAV repositories, even over a VPN... and haven't had the first hiccup.
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A nice tidbit that seems to be lacking the documentation is how to optimize the overlays... uncheck everything on the page except "Fixed Drives" and add C:\* to your exclude paths... then if your local checkout is C:\source, add C:\source\* to your includes That seems to be the 99% rule of how most people setup their systems... of course if you have multiple drives, include them all in the exclude paths, and only include bonafide source directories. I've been using Tortoise SVN v1.4.3 and v1.3.8 constantly for about 2 weeks each now, on different machines (and networks) with both SVN and WebDAV repositories, even over a VPN... and haven't had the first hiccup.
============================= I'm a developer, he's a developer, she's a developer, Wouldn'tcha like to be a developer too?
Thanks for that. I've just configured that... let's see how it goes. cheers