Steps are:
- Download subversion installer from http://subversion.tigris.org.
- Install at location say C:\svn.
- At cmd prompt, create a repository:
svnadmin create "C:\svnrepo"
- Edit C:\svnrepo\conf\svnserve.conf and uncomment the following lines:
anon-access = read
auth-access = write
password-db = passwd
- Edit C:\svnrepo\conf\passwd file:add users in the format username = password one per line and remove the default users.
- Set environment variable SVN_EDITOR to your favorite text editor (say Textpad.exe).
- Set Subversion as a service with the following command at cmd prompt:
- sc create Subversion binpath= "c:\svn\bin\svnserve.exe --service --root c:\svnrepo --listen-port 9999" displayname= "Subversion Repo" depend= Tcpip start= auto
- Go to service control manager to start the Subversion service or type the following on :
net start “Subversion Repo”
- Import an existing project in subversion repo:
svn import C:\myproject svn://localhost:9999/myproject
- After importing data, note that the original tree is not under version control. To start working, you still need to svn checkout a fresh working copy of the tree.
svn checkout svn://localhost:9999/myproject
- Install 32 or 64 bit version of tortoise SVN from http://tortoisesvn.net/. After installing you will need to reboot your system. Tortoise SVN is a windows shell extension which makes the use of SVN from windows explorer very easy and intuitive.
There's a standard convention in Subversion to start with the "TTB folders" at the root of any project:
Because Subversion uses regular directory copies for branching and tagging (see Chapter 4, Branching and Merging), the Subversion community recommends that you choose a repository location for each project root -- the "top-most" directory which contains data related to that project -- and then create three subdirectories beneath that root: trunk, meaning the directory under which the main project development occurs; branches, which is a directory in which to create various named branches of the main development line; tags, which is a collection of tree snapshots that are created, and perhaps destroyed, but never changed.
So make it a practice to add the trunk, tags and branches directories to your project and all your project files will go under trunk then.
