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Thursday, December 10, 2009

Visual SVN :: Setting up Subversion the easy way

I had to install a subversion repository on a server today, and I thought it was going to be a headache because the last time I dealt with Subversion was years ago and I was a rather uninterested spectator at the time. I had seen Rohland using VisualSVN before, so I thought I'd give it a try.

It was so simple to install, there's barely anything worth mentioning. Download the file, load up the documentation, follow the steps and there you go. I created an administrators group, a user to slot into that group, and removed access to "Everyone", and that was the access side done. I created a repository, let the tool create the default structure, and that was pretty much the sum total of the installation.

Note that any settings you apply during creation are not cast in stone - once the installation is complete you can always change your configuration by loading up the VisualSVN Server snap-in, right clicking "VisualSVN Server" and clicking "Properties".

The only difference in my configuration was changing the port - instead of using 443 I wanted to use a different port number. I stopped the VisualSVN service, changed the value in the configuration (see previous paragraph), and restarted the service. My repository was then available via https://myserver:7443/svn/myrepo/trunk/.

A total learning curve of about 3 minutes. Fantastic.

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