Comments on: Using Subversion without a Subversion server

By: Ambuj

Ambuj — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 07:51:18 +0000

Great info! thanks for this. Though I’d like to let you know that I’m using TortoiseSVN 1.6.8 and with that you do need to have : in the path – something like “file:///d:repositories/test” works.

By: Koen

Koen — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 12:17:16 +0000

Nice info,

If you’re not using subversion, is it still possible to move your repository to another machine ?

I suppose a simple cut / paste won’t cut it

By: Gio

Gio — Mon, 31 May 2010 14:40:13 +0000

thanks a lot…this helped me very much…so I carry whereever my little projects and only what I need is (Tortoise+USB key)…

By: mike

mike — Fri, 28 May 2010 18:07:35 +0000

thanks a lot…so simple…need this because i’m behind a proxy at work and so i can’t use google or sth else to store my thesis and documents which i also need at home…

By: xero

xero — Thu, 20 May 2010 16:35:09 +0000

thanx a lot ken! this has helped me a lot. had setup a local svn server on my laptop, and i was manually moving the files from the base repo in a similar fashion anyways. this is a much simpler solution. thanx!

By: ken

ken — Wed, 20 Dec 2006 15:55:00 +0000

Thanks Ken, I stumbled across this post just as was setting up Subversion server...

By: ken

ken — Fri, 08 Dec 2006 11:28:00 +0000

You aren't limited to being the only user of the files. As I mentioned in the post, it uses the user's Windows username with checkins, which still allows you to do user change tracking.

Plus, if if there are free hosting providers, some of the things are my own personal projects. Even on Google's site, they have a list projects you can browse. I write some of my own apps for some tracking finances and such. I don't want that on Google's site. Plus, I keep some project files from Telligent customers in my own Subversion server. I don't think they want their stuff up on Google. My way is a simple, 100% private, zero-cost solution.

By: ken

ken — Fri, 08 Dec 2006 07:08:00 +0000

Yes it's a nice way of using it, but this way you are limited to be the only user of your files. There are so many hosters that offer svn service that even for small projects I think is more convenient to put them there. http://code.google.com/hosting/ is one of them.