I have this semi-open-source project that I work on with a few others which I needed version control for so I decided to setup Subversion with Apache this evening.  Things went well, it was a farily easy install process. 

You can download installers for both products on their respective sites.  Make sure you read up on the Subversion docs exactly how to integrate with Apache, with the Modules and Authentication if you need it (http.conf).  Since IIS is my Web Server of choice, I simple chose to run Apache on a non-standard port, its a no brainer in the http.conf file.  Oh, and make sure you install Apache as a service.

I think the hardest thing was to get used to the way that Subversion does its job. 

I successfully imported the entire project and even integrated the entire thing with VS.NET 2003 via this plugin.  So far, it is much nicer that Visual Source Safe and appears to have much more capabilities as well.

6 Comments

• fking said Thursday, July 28, 2005 9:56:00 PM

  Subversion is good.
  
  It's a pitty that ankhsvn is getting old. There is no update for a long time.

• Paul Glavich said Thursday, July 28, 2005 11:05:00 PM

  Yes I would have to agree. Subversion is leaps and bounds ahead of plain old VSS. Using the TortioseSVN shell is my mode of preference. It seems much quicker and nicer to use than the AnkhSVN utility.
  Also, when the team starts to grow, Subversin really shows its stuff. Branching, merging and diffing work very well.

• Ramon Smits said Friday, July 29, 2005 2:40:00 AM

  I am using subversion for a long time now and I really don't need any subversion integration from within visualstudio. This because TortoiseSVN works so well from within the explorer.

• Aaron Junod said Friday, July 29, 2005 4:42:00 AM

  Glad to see you taking a liking to svn.. It's a fantastic product. I would try to sway you away from using the vs.net plugins, though. Not that there is anything wrong with them, but using source control from the IDE implicitly enforces the thoughts that your project is what you see in the IDE. In many cases, your project is much more then whats i nthe IDE, and keeping source control decoupled makes it easier to "grok'. Plus, who wants another IDE plugin when Tortoise works oh so nicley from the explorer. :)

• Damien Guard said Friday, July 29, 2005 5:18:00 AM

  There are plenty of AnkhSVN updates however they are labelled "development snapshots". They appear to be no less buggy than the official 0.5 release ;-)
  
  [)amien

• Mike said Friday, July 29, 2005 6:19:00 AM

  I use TortiseSVN for my dev work, having the source control appear right in Explorer is great.