Introduction:
There are many version controls are available in the market, like Visual Source Safe (VSS), Subversion (SVN), Concurrency Version System (CVS), etc. Only the SVN is in the scope of this article.
SVN has two different flavors:
1. Command Line SVN
2. Visual SVN (TortoiseSVN)
TortoiseSVN is the visual interface of SVN, which is really very cool. You can easily get SVN and TortoiseSVN as they are free.
After downloading TortoiseSVN, just install it on your machine where you want to make your repository for version control. Now right-click on the blank place on the desktop and check if you are able to see TortoiseSVN options in the context menu.
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These TortoiseSVN options may come in different positions, depending on your operating system. This image is taken from OS Windows XP Professional with SP 2. SVN options show that you have successfully installed TortoiseSVN in your system. Now you are ready to work with TortoiseSVN. Here are the steps you have to follow to create your repository.
Step 1:
To create your repository, Fix a location to your system where you want to create your repository, Say your repository path in the system would be "C:\SVN\MyProject". Right-click on the folder "MyProject" select "Create repository here", and select "Native filesystem (FSFS)".
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Figure 2
After "OK", it will show a message for successful repository creation. Some files and folders will create automatically in this folder "MyProject".
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Step 2:
1. Now you have to add your code to this repository, avoiding risk with your original code, create a folder hierarchy somewhere in your system like "C:\Temp\branches", "E:\Temp\tags" and "C:\Temp\trunk".
2. Place your all project content within folder "C:\Temp\trunk".
3. Import "Temp" directory into your repository, for this right click on the folder "C:\Temp\trunk" and select "Import".
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It will ask you now "URL for repository", locate it to "C:\SVN\MyProject".
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Click "OK", and your next screen will be as follows:
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This shows your code has been saved to the TortoiseSVN repository. Now you can even delete "C:\Temp" folder from your disk.
4. Now it's time to get your working folder, for this you have to follow this. Right-click on your "C:\SVN\MyProject" folder and select "SVN checkout"
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Locate it to your working folder path, say the working folder path is "C:\Working_Folder", then it will look like this:
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Click "OK", it will show you a message for successfully creating a working folder with version 1.
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Great!!! Now you are ready to work with TortoiseSVN.
If you will do some changes to your code file, it will show like this:
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You can commit these file changes to the repository, simply right-click on the checkout file and select "SVN commit". This will commit your changes to the repository.
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There is one more option i.e. "SVN Update", which will get the latest version from the repository.
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Figure 12
That's it. I believe this article will help you to set up this repository in your system.