I posted earlier today about the subversion book being available free online, which Pete Freitag responded that it has apparently been available for a long time. I started to go through the book, but hit snags almost imediately. I have dabled very lightly in *nix based platforms but definately do not understand the command line interface for them, and don't know how to translate from *nix command line to windows command line. The book mentions that it should be possible to use subversion on windows easily, but does not explain how very easily. A google search yeilded very little help and I was wondering if anyone had any tutorials or help documentation on how to get up and running with subversion on windows xp. I do all of my development on my laptop, and unfortunately do not have another box to put linux on at the moment (sigh). Any help will be greatly appreciated, and hopefully this will help others who find themselves in the same boat.
Version Control on Windows XP
Posted on Fri. April 08, 2005 by Ryan Guill
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I would be very interested in this as well. if you find a very well laid out tutorial, please let me know (olsonjj@gmail.com).
Hopefully someone out there as a nice one done in Captivate or similar done step by step.
Thx.
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I use Tortoise SVN. It integrates into Windows Explorer so you don't have to touch the command line.
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It seems like I tried TortiseSVN, but couldn't get it to work right. Im going back for another look.
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I don't think you can use TortiseSVN without first installing Subversion on windows. And that can be difficult because you have to install cygwin and that can be a P.I.T.A.
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Well I have a windows version of subversion installed, and supposedly working... and I just installed the tortisesvn, which also seems to be working, I just don't know how to use it :S
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Yes, of course you need svn installed before tortoise. It's just an interface to svn. But you don't need cygwin to install svn.
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I just posted a new entry with a link to how to install subversion on windows. The link is http://www.ryanguill.com/blog/index.cfm?mode=entry&entry=8F48A7E0-40CA-6D1C-8A2C26594F7DA544 Thanks to Andy Jarrett (http://www.andyjarrett.co.uk/andy/blog/index.cfm) for the link.
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Just to make this clear: You don't have to install Subversion at all to use TortoiseSVN. Just install TSVN with the installer, and you're ready to go. Of course, if you want to set up a Subversion server to host a repository, *then* you have to install Subversion itself. But if you only need a client, TSVN is enough. Also, the TSVN docs are really good: http://tortoisesvn.sourceforge.net/?q=doc_release
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I found a new link to installing subversion on windows. More info at http://www.ryanguill.com/blog/index.cfm?mode=entry&entry=BA330E70-40CA-6D1C-8AD43335F057CDC7