Maintain a Versioning System in your work environment

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This post would help you get started with subversion Source code management. for more information about subversion check http://subversion.tigris.org/

You would need to download subversion server http://subversion.apache.org/packages.html. Then you can connect to the server using you favorite IDE (Netbeans,Eclipse,Virtual Studio ).

In this post i would take you through how to install subversion on your windows 7 O/S using Netbeans 6.8

Subversion support various protocol (File, HTTP,HTTPS,SSH,SVN), but i would be install subversion as a window service using svnserve.exe.

1 install the subversion server ( set the subversion port number to 3790 )

## this explains how to create a subversion repository

## make sure the subversion server path as been added to your windows path so that you can call subversion from anywhere in your cmd
## start->right click on computer->properties->Advanced System Setup->Environment Variables->path->edit->add C:\Program Files\CollabNet\Subversion Server to the path variables assuming you installed the subversion server in this path

## this create a sub version repository in the following

## it create 4 folders (hooks,conf,look,db) in your repository

2 svnadmin create “c:\Subversion\svn”

## edit conf files so that you can authtenticate users that can access your subversion system
3 open the folder where you created  the repository “c:\Subversion\svn\conf”
   open the file svnserve.conf
   uncomment the following lines
   anon-access = read
   auth-access = write
   password-db = passwd

## add a user lanre with password lanre 

 ## add username and password

##format username= password

4 open the file passwd in the folder “c:\Subversion\svn\conf”
   lanre= lanre
## create a window service
##called svnserver
## with exe path C:\Program Files\CollabNet\Subversion Server\svnserve.exe
## with root folder c:\Subversion
## that listen at port 3790 (the port that you specified when installing subversion on the server)
## host server address localhost
## with display name Subversion Repository
## and depend on tcpip protocol
## service start auto
5  sc create svnserver binPath= “\”C:\Program Files\CollabNet\Subversion Server\svnserve.exe\” –service –root c:\Subversion\svn –listen-port=3790 –listen-host=localhost” DisplayName= “Subversion Repository” depend= Tcpip start= auto

6 open you subversion client  (make sure the subversion server is up -> start the service “Subversion Repository” from your windows services  )

## open you netbeans IDE ->team->subversion ->download the subversion plugin

4 connect to the repository using svn://localhost/snv
   Enter the username and password to the server.

then checkout your project .