Tortoise Subversion a.k.a tsvn

Hi guys,

Its been a quite while, I didn't updated any posts in the blog since I was busy with new project with ESPN, I couldn't get enough time to write a new articles.

Today I would like to share new topic which is very important if you are working on windows operating system.The topic is alternative way to checkout subversion repository using a tool called “Tortoise Subversion” also called as TortoiseSVN or TSVN.

TSVN is a windows application software functions all features as ordinary subversion does. TSVN is mostly operated by mouse few clicks, no need to go through start>>run>>cmd.

This is a best and alternative tool used for our regular svn tasks like svn co, scn update, svn commit, svn tag/branch, adding svn externals , svn delete and many more functionalities which we often forget the commands to perform the action.

Lets take a look how can we Install and use TortoiseSVN:

Requirements:

1. Win2k SP4, WinXP, Vista or later
2. Firefox (Optional)

Get Software:

1. This is a free open source software, no need to take loan or pay your year salary to purchase this product :-).
2. Get the software from this link , download the respective software based on your operating system (32 bit or 64 bit).
3. 
4. Download ,Install and restart the computer.
5. After restart when you right click the mouse you should see the following screen:

             

Now its time to test subversion task like checkout, commit and updates.

svn checkout: This is used to download the repository to your work area (your pc), for this you need to create a new folder with your desired project name. To demonstrate we do checkout the code from http://svn.collab.net/repos/svn/trunk/

Create a folder called calc(just for demo, you can create as u wish) and open the calc folder and right click mouse and click on “SVN Checkout”,

a new window opens and enter this url in first box “url of repository” http://svn.collab.net/repos/svn/trunk/ and click ok,

after a while complete code is downloaded from remote url to your local area, when you are done with checkout you will see the green tick on the folder which you created(in our case its calc).

This is a brief description for the process of svn co and you can do similar process for rest of the svn tasks like update, commit etc.

Tip: If you are a Firefox browser lover you can get svn plug-in which helps you to do svn tasks even when you are in web browser, for more information click this link or search tortoise svn Firefox plug-in, screenshot looks like this:

Please feel free to post your comments and queries I will try to answer.

--Kumar