Monday, March 06, 2006
Windows Subversioned
Just got SVN server running on Windows. So far so good! I installed both the TortoiseSVN and SVN server using the SVN 1-Click Setup.
It's not obvious how to specify the SVN URL. For example, if the SVN repository is created at C:\svnrepos, the URL will be
To remote access it, the SVN URL is simply:
Update on 12Mar06: just upgraded my svn client to TortoiseSVN 1.3.2 and svn server to SVN 1.3.0 on Windows. I didn't uninstall the previous subversion (both client and server), but I needed to manually disable the SVNService before I could install SVN 1.3.0 without failure.
I've used subversion seriously only for a week. Love it so far. In fact, I've disabled my CVSNT service (although not yet uninstalled). There is even utility to convert existing CVS repository to SVN. So I am not looking back.
It's not obvious how to specify the SVN URL. For example, if the SVN repository is created at C:\svnrepos, the URL will be
I then imported my Java project to it from Eclipse 3.1.2 via the Subclipse plugin. My project is now actually under dual version control by SVN and P4 :)file:///C:/svnrepos
To remote access it, the SVN URL is simply:
Pretty neat.svn://myhostname
Update on 12Mar06: just upgraded my svn client to TortoiseSVN 1.3.2 and svn server to SVN 1.3.0 on Windows. I didn't uninstall the previous subversion (both client and server), but I needed to manually disable the SVNService before I could install SVN 1.3.0 without failure.
I've used subversion seriously only for a week. Love it so far. In fact, I've disabled my CVSNT service (although not yet uninstalled). There is even utility to convert existing CVS repository to SVN. So I am not looking back.
