Need to setup Subversion in my local box

Question

I am using Windows7 and I do lot of Java coding in Eclipse. But I dont have a version control system. I have heard of Subversion being a very popular VCS, so I would like to set it in my local box. Can you please give me some pointers on where to start/look at?

I would like to checkin/checkout files using Eclipse. Please guide me.

Thanks

Answer 1

If you're the only person who needs to access the repository, you can create a svn repository on your filesystem and you won't need to install and run a server.

http://vincenthomedev.wordpress.com/2007/10/15/setup-svn-local-repository-step-by-step/

Subclipse is a great SVN plugin for Eclipse, you might also find TortoiseSVN very handy as well. Both are very easy to use.

Answer 2

First, you'll need a Subversion repository, which can either be a remote server on the internet (google "free subversion repository"), or a server running locally on your machine, or a machine on your lan. For the last one, you can use VisualSVN Server.

Once with a SVN repository setup, you have to install a SVN client to work with it. I recommend TortoiseSVN for general stuff, but I'm pretty sure Eclipse has SVN support builtin, so once you've setup a repository server, you just have to configure the client on Eclipse to connect to it.

Answer 3

Subclipse http://subclipse.tigris.org/ is a plugin for eclipse that allows you to checkout / in files inside of the eclipse IDE.

It doesn't get SVN set up on your machine, you'll need to install svn and set up a repository first, but the integration with eclipse is nice to have.

Answer 4

If you're on windows it's difficult not to go with VisualSVN. As for Eclipse you can get an eclipse plugin here