So I had a mishap happen with my project the other day and I decided, finally, to get a version tracking system. I had heard a lot about SVN and used TortoiseSVN occassionaly to get the latest versions of subsonic, jQueryMVC, ffmpeg and a few other projects. So I looked around for something that could integrate well with Visual Studio 2008. I ran across VisualSVN, downloaded the trial, and I'm now hooked! It's a really good price too (I have yet to purchase it though). Anyways, TortoiseSVN allows you to easily create your repository and you get a cool SVNAdmin tool which you can use to backup your repository (in combination with task cheduler).

So if you were like me and you keep hearing about SVN this and SVN that... jump in, the water is warm :) You're wasting productivity by not checking it out!

[04/30/08] There's another great article I bumped into today regarding a move to TortoiseSVN and VisualSVN, check it out here.

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Rob Bazinet United States

Thursday, May 01, 2008 3:02 AM

Rob Bazinet

I am glad you found the article useful.  The folks who make VisualSVN also produce VisualSVN server, a free installation and setup of Subversion which does users, security, repository management, etc.  I wrote about it recently - www.accidentaltechnologist.com/.../

Thanks.

Alex Parish United Kingdom

Friday, May 02, 2008 6:06 PM

Alex Parish

Denny, first off, great blog.

I wondered if you've tried AnkhSVN, a free subversion client for Visual Studio... If so how does VisualSVN compare?

A'braham Barakhyahu United States

Monday, May 05, 2008 11:26 PM

A'braham Barakhyahu

I would also suggest new users to puruse the introduction to how svn works in the svn book and the  tortoisesvn docs.  I've come across many people who get frustrated with svn because they didn't read the foundational principles.  Otherwise, I don't see why I would use anything else for what I do (induvidual to small team, multi-tier development), plus you can hook it into a bunch of tools.

A'braham Barakhyahu United States

Tuesday, May 06, 2008 6:44 PM

A'braham Barakhyahu

Ankhsvn is actually pretty good and pretty comparable imho.  I've used both.

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