SVN Advice

[John Strasser]

Hi Folks,

Having never used an SVN before I figure it's time.  Especially since I'm tired of making my backups by hand each time I'm about to fire up an editor.

As a complete never having used one before newbie in the SVN world are there any cheap (as in free) and easy systems I can use?  Preferably on my home network?

[Eros Olmi]

I use VisualSvn Standard Edition as Server side: http://www.visualsvn.com/server/
It is very easy to setup and has a an easy user interface.
Setup one or more repository and one or more project.

For the client part I use tortoisesvn: http://tortoisesvn.net/
It integrates with Windows Explorer and once setup you just need to use right click to commit or update your sources.
It has a loot of options to control source code updated and versioning.

[John Strasser]

Thanks.  I'll check them out

[Cory Marshall]

I know you asked about SVN, HOWEVER everything i have heard is svn is dead and/or dieing.  The current major uptake is on Disturbed Version Control Systems.  The two big players in DVCS are Git and Mercurial.  Git is very powerful and once learned is very productive.  Mercurial is more windows friendly and is easier to learn off the bat.  Git has a great player in the field know as Github, not only can you host git repositories with them they have some of the best documents for easy setup of git, they also make "Github For Windows" witch is a simplified git interface.

I personally choose Git as my DVC with SmartGit (non-comerical free install).  My knowledge on the subject is more skewed to git.  I would have to admit, if it wasn't for Github's help section and the book "Pro Git" I would have been lost. Looking back, I don't see how i got along without it.

Mercurial - http://mercurial.selenic.com
Git - http://www.git-scm.com
github - http://www.github.com
Github For Windows - http://windows.github.com
SmartGit - http://www.syntevo.com/smartgit/index.html
Pro Git - http://git-scm.com/book

[John Strasser]

Thanks Cory,

I will admit that I played with Git in the past and got totally confuzzled.  I'll give it another try.