Subversion_on_XP

I’m still looking for the right place to host my work in subversion. Until then, I’m running a subversion server on my home system. I’m using subversion for experience, I’ve been using some version of CVS since 1989 and I figure it’s about time to give a new tool a try.

Here’s what I did to get that up and running. Note, all of this stuff is available online. I’m just putting it here for a very quick reference.

Install Software

Download subversion XP binaries from here. Note I’m using 1.3.2.
Install it. I happened to install it C:\Subversion

Configure Repository

CD to the subversion installation directory (c:\Subversion in my case)
CD to the bin directory
Create a repository using the svnadmin tool: svnadmin create c:\Repository Note my directory is c:\Repository

Configure Subversion as an XP Service

Download a tool to install subversion as a service from here
Extract this somewhere. I just extracted it to C:\Subversion\bin to make life easy
Use the tool to install subversion as a service: snvservice -install -d -r c:\Repository Note, by using -r c:\Repository, my URL will be svn://localhost/, if you didn’t use -R c:\Repository, your URL would be svn://localhost/Repository

Configure the Windows Service

Open up the windows services tool
Find SVNService
Right-click start
Right-click properties, change startup-type to automatic and click OK
Close windows services

Setup User Accounts

CD to the directory where you created your repository, c:\Repository in my case
CD to conf
Use your favorite editor (vim, right?) to edit snvserv.conf, put the following info in it:

[general]
auth-access = write
password-db = passwd

Use your favorite editor to edit passwd and create an account, e.g.:

[users]
* user name        password
brett.schuchert = somepassword

Install Subclipse

In Eclipse, go to help:software updates:find and install
Select search for new features to install and click on next
Create a new site, Name: Subclipse URL: http://subclipse.tigris.org/update_1.2.x
Follow the install instructions and then restart Eclipse

Connect to a Repository

Open up the SVN Repository Exploring Perspective in Eclipse
Right-click in the SVN Repository Tab and select New:Repository Location
Enter your URL. In my case it’s: svn://localhost

First Time You Write

When you try to add a project in Eclipse, you’ll be asked to login in
Enter your user and password. In my example, my user is “brett.schuchert” and my password is “somepassword”

That’s it.