Tag Archives: subversion

Subversion - Just Do It

Yesterday evening there was a post on the CFEclipse mailing list. Someone was curious about how they could back up their CFEclipse projects and I responded “by using Subversion”.
They replied:
It just seems like complicated overkill for a single developer
I see this all the time and it’s frustrating because of all the tools I use [...]

Trac/Subversion Book

Just saw this on Google Reader while reading my Ubuntu feeds…
Managing Software Development with Trac and Subversion.
That looks like a good one!!

Why Use Subversion? Two Reasons: Revert and Branches

I’ve seen a few posts and blog comments were people were reluctant to implement some kind of version control primarily because they develop by themselves and didn’t see any value.
Two things I use in Subversion that makes my development easier are Branches and the Revert command.
So the last few days I’ve been messing around with [...]

Automated Subversion Reports w/StatSVN and Ant

Alistair Davidson recently blogged about StatSvn - a reporting tool for Subversion. From their site:
“StatSVN retrieves information from a Subversion repository and generates various tables and charts describing the project development.”
Some of the reports it will produce:

Timeline for the lines of code
Lines of code for each developer
Activity by Clock time
Authors Activity
Author activity per Module
Stats [...]

SVNService No Longer Needed with Subversion 1.4

I'm reinstalling all my software (got a new PC at work - whoohoo!) and was digging around for SVNService - a wrapper that allowed you to run SVN as a Windows service. All the links I found on Google were dead and I thought I was hosed until I found this:
Windows Service Support for [...]

Subversion Hotcopy Backup Scripts

I wrote these two scripts to backup my repository at work. Tested on WinXP...
Example 1 - could be run with Scheduled Task:
PLAIN TEXT
CODE:

@ECHO OFF

REM     will hotcopy your repo to My Documents

REM    this will delete the existing dir and create it again

REM    you could use this script with a scheduled task [...]

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