How to Setup SVN for remote access

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Khawar picture Khawar · May 2, 2011 · Viewed 8.9k times · Source

I am new to SVN thing. I have a remote server, windows server 2003. I want my team to commit their work on server on daily basis. I am choosing SVN for this task but I dont know what i need and from where to start? How the SVN will be configured on both the server and client side? I tried to read different tutorials. Some are outdated or some links are broken etc. So please help me out by keeping things simple. Please guide me what I need on server and client.

Thanks

Answer

dertkw picture dertkw · May 2, 2011

Take a look at a Subversion Cheat Sheet on how to create a repository on your server.

svnadmin create d:/path_to_repository

Your clients must check out projects and commit code from and to this repository using the command line (see the cheat sheet for svn commands) 

svn checkout file:///d:/repository_name/project/trunk project

or a client like Tortoise SVN:

Tortoise checkout

References:

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