Newbie General Startup Questions

[Scott Purcell <sp...@vertisinc.com>]

Hello,

 

I have been a user of cvs through my work, and I have the need for a
versioning software at home that can run on a Windows box and control
source code for java apps.

 

Anyway, last evening, I tried reading through the docs ... but there
seems to be a large amount of information on Subversion. I ended up
downloading a binary executable and did a install. After the install ...
I was lost on what to do. I noticed the docs showing some commands ..
but wasn't sure whether to use a cmd window, to issue commands in, or if
I should be executing a Subversion executable to configure the server.
It was unclear also, if the server, and client were in the download?

 

My only need would be to create a repository .. for a test project.
After that, is there a gui like wincvs? It looks like there is a web
interface? 

 

I apologize, but if I could get a 40000 feet idea of what I am supposed
to do would really help. I was just overwhelmed by the amount of links,
tutorials, books, etc, about this project. 

All I want to do is get something set up fast, and get started. 

 

Thanks for your time,

Sincerely

Scott

 

 

Re: Newbie General Startup Questions

[Johan Appelgren <jo...@gmail.com>]

On 2/16/06, Scott Purcell <sp...@vertisinc.com> wrote:
>
>
> Hello,
>
> I have been a user of cvs through my work, and I have the need for a
> versioning software at home that can run on a Windows box and control source
> code for java apps.
>
> Anyway, last evening, I tried reading through the docs … but there seems to
> be a large amount of information on Subversion. I ended up downloading a
> binary executable and did a install. After the install … I was lost on what
> to do. I noticed the docs showing some commands .. but wasn't sure whether
> to use a cmd window, to issue commands in, or if I should be executing a
> Subversion executable to configure the server. It was unclear also, if the
> server, and client were in the download?
>
> My only need would be to create a repository .. for a test project. After
> that, is there a gui like wincvs? It looks like there is a web interface?
>
> I apologize, but if I could get a 40000 feet idea of what I am supposed to
> do would really help. I was just overwhelmed by the amount of links,
> tutorials, books, etc, about this project.
>
> All I want to do is get something set up fast, and get started.

Maybe you should take a look at the TortoiseSvn project,
<http://tortoisesvn.tigris.org/>. It's a windows subversion client
that integrates with the explorer shell. I've found it very easy to
use.

As to the commands in the subversion docs, yes, they're command line
examples. The subversion package you've downloaded contains the
windows command line client as well as some other tools for managing a
server. You can find a list of the tools and a short description of
what they do here
<http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.1/svn-book.html#svn-ch-1-sect-5>.

/Johan

Re: Newbie General Startup Questions

[Ryan Schmidt <su...@ryandesign.com>]

On Feb 16, 2006, at 14:59, Scott Purcell wrote:

> I apologize, but if I could get a 40000 feet idea of what I am  
> supposed to do would really help. I was just overwhelmed by the  
> amount of links, tutorials, books, etc, about this project.
>
> All I want to do is get something set up fast, and get started.

It's not the answer you want to hear, but it really does help to take  
a few hours over a weekend and read the http://svnbook.org/ . It  
should help you understand how Subversion works; it greatly helped  
me. There's even an appendix designed for CVS converts, which may  
help you avoid some of the pitfalls and misunderstandings CVS users  
commonly experience when first using Subversion.



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