The Subversion Tutorial

Here is a tutorial that I wanted to write it in my own words so that it will be easy going about with it, but... ah well, I guess I ought to post the whole page. Here is also another tutorial. They contain quite some amount of text, but with good illustrations.

Here is another link which will be useful for reference purposes:

~Kwabena

It shouldn't be hard once you have the tortoiseSVN downloaded and running. We can try it with some files after class on Tuesday. I believe Brett has downloaded it. ~Kwabena

Seems like a thorough tutorial. Have you tried it yet yourself? ~DS

I've been fiddling, and it seems to be working. I'm going to upload my active control files, maybe everyone else will upload their files too?

~DS

Obviously, I'm still playing around with it. Right now I've uploaded the entire remoteTest project directory, but that might not be a good idea. Now whenever I open my project, Tortoise wants me to update the repository, because VB automatically creates debug information whenever you open a project.

Hmm, maybe I will leave it the way it is. After all, the entire project is less than a megabyte, where's the harm? This takes some getting used to, but you won't learn if you don't try. Here's a sample difference between using SVN on Linux and using Tortoise on Windows.

On Linux, to create a directory IN THE REPOSITORY, you can type:

svn mkdir someDir

Or you can type:

mkdir someDir

svn add someDir

If you think about it, I think you'll realize what's going on here.

On Tortoise, there is no "svn mkdir" in the context menu, so what you'll do is:

1. Right Click > New > Folder
2. Right Click on the New Folder > TortoiseSVN > Add
3. Right Click > SVN Commit

Logical, no?

~DS