Subverting Tortoises

The other day I was looking again at where the excellent FlexWiki project has been progressing and I decided I'd like to download the sourcecode, only to realise I'd need a CVS client to access the source-control database. I promptly downloaded TortoiseCVS and was stunned to discover how easy it was to use. It got me thinking that I might as well start running a CVS locally on my machine for source-control.

I then naturally revisited the idea of using Subversion instead as I had read many times how it was "a compelling replacement for CVS" . It so happens that I decided to just start off with TortoiseSVN (a client app for Subversion) with the aim of seeing how that works and it turns out that it has an amazingly handy feature whereby you can use TortoiseSVN to setup and run a source-control repository locally. TortoiseSVN then treats that location on your hard drive exactly as if it were a Subversion server proper.

With this proliferation of Tortoises in my life I decided to hark back to my days as a Zoology student and have a look at what other  Chelonia I might expect to find here in Europe. I like the Golden Greek Tortoise the best...

Golden Greek Tortoise

see http://www.chelonia.org/European_Gallery.htm for more!

 

#1 Chris on 6.04.2008 at 12:40 PM

RohanI stood up a SVN repository about 2 yrs ago at a company I was working for w/ no background on it. Fairly easy to do and very easy to maintain and move forward with! I've not heard much about .NET IDE integration; I used TortoiseSVN for explorer integration and Subclipse - an Eclipse plugin for the Java development I was doing... anyway, my 2 cents.