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Subversion

You have to love Subversion, at times it can be a real savior. Version control has been an item that has been arising at work for the past couple of years. We don’t have a centralized repository available to all. There has been discussions of using visual source safe, and a couple of other mechanisms. However, I think I’m going to start everyone off on subversion this week. I've got an ole 1U box that I can install upon, and away we go. First, subversion really doesn’t care at all about the language. The other item is that you can using versioning for many things. My large concerns are SQL Scripts, Crystal Reports, Cold Fusion Files, and old VB Files. Although the router tables, may be a good addition. I’ve been tweaking a setup and I think I have it working for several groups. Buy in will be easy since it relates to a rather large concern lately knowledge loss related to turn-overs.

Setting up subversion is easy. First download the subversion files. This will give you command-line tools that you can utilize for specific control. Next, download the TortoiseSVN which intergrates with Windows Explorer. Now you can check out and manipulate repositories from explorer. For the MS side of the world, AnkhSVN, is the VS plugin, and for the Java side of the world, subclipse, is the eclipse plugin.

Now check out the online book, Version Control with Subversion, and the from pragmatic programmer.Pragmatic Version Control using Subversion