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Published on Thursday, 25 August 2011 10:03

While working on a range of projects at different stages of development its almost essential to have some sort of version control system in place. Originally I used CVS but now its SVN.

In our office we have an SVN server that controls everything and at home I have a Ubuntu server that works in a similar manner. However, I just discovered that you can create a repository quite easily using Tortoise SVN on the same machine. That makes things simpler and quicker for testing things out.

To create a repository just right click > TortoiseSVN > Create repository here.

Then, you can create a new project in the repository by using the repo browser. The url should be something like the following file:///C:/Users/Asta/svn. Then right click on the right hand pane and create a new folder. Checking out the project is just the same as any other project.

Of course, using a repository on your local machine doesn't help protect in the case of a system crash, but you could schedule a backup of the repo files.