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Ber53rker
Ber53rker

Reputation: 1038

TortiseSVN over LAN?

I've been having to use Source Safe at work and it blows. I'd like to switch to TortiseSVN but apparently when working over LAN things can become corrupt? Is that true? Is there anyway to bypass corruption?

At this point, even Source Safe is starting to corrupt things. (Terrible program...) Thanks!

Upvotes: 1

Views: 495

Answers (4)

Anders Abel
Anders Abel

Reputation: 69280

TortoiseSVN works perfectly well over a LAN, together with a Subversion server.

There is a possibility in TortoiseSVN to work against a local, file based repository. If the file based repo is placed on a network drive I assume that things can break. Don't do that.

Source Safe tries to do sharing based on a network share without a proper server software. It is very error prone. Don't try to do anything similar with subversion.

The SVN server runs fine under both Windows and Unix. There are installers available for both platforms.

Upvotes: 2

duffymo
duffymo

Reputation: 308998

I've run Subversion on my home machine without any problem. (I'm using Git now.)

You shouldn't be going out on the Internet to access your work SVN repository. I'm assuming that you'll host it on a server inside your firewall, on your network.

But it's perfectly correct to access Subversion over the Internet. Lots of open source projects grant read-only access to anonymous users so they can access code over the Internet. Where are you getting your information? Time for a new source.

Upvotes: 1

gbjbaanb
gbjbaanb

Reputation: 52689

You've got it wrong - VSS is prone to corruption when run over a network. This especially applies over a WAN. VSS works by directly modifying the files in the VSS DB, and if there's a network glitch during file transmission, it doesn't realise and so stores the partial files in the DB quite happily. As you've seen, the larger the file or the flakier the network, the more likely you are to lose data.

SVN doesn't work like this, it uses a server application, you send the files to the server, it checks them and then it securely stores them. If there's a problem, it tells you.

Now, you can configure SVN to work with the files directly (using the file:// protocol instead of the more common svn:// or http:// protocols), this is often done by a server process that reads the data (like a backup program) but it is not recommended for ordinary use. People used to use it for local-only svn operation, ie where there is only 1 user, but no-one does that nowadays.

There are good installers that set everything up for you, the best known is VisualSVN Server but there is UberSVN too. Go grab one and use it, you will be much happier.

Upvotes: 0

Rory Hunter
Rory Hunter

Reputation: 3470

Can't say that's happened at my place of work, and we're about 50 people.

Upvotes: 0

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