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SVN is short for "Subversion" and is an open source version control system
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What fast, free SVN repository alternatives to Google Code are there for open-source projects?
I am using Google Code for my project which is almost a hobby project under the MIT license. The problem is, Google Code is too slow from my area.
So I am looking for alternative repositories. Can ...
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SVN: Working with branches using the same working copy
We've just moved to SVN from CVS. We have a small team and everyone checks in code on the trunk and we have never ever used branches for development.
We each have directories on a remote dev server ...
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Why is local copy writable by default in SVN, but readonly in Perforce/TFS?
I have some experience with Perforce, SVN, and TFS. For SVN, The source files were by default writable after synchronization. However, they were readonly for Perforce, as well as TFS if memory served ...
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Is there a difference between merges in svn compared to git or mercurial?
From my understanding SVN is 'Easy to branch. Difficult to merge'. Why is that? Is there a difference how they merge?
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Which part of the source base should users be testing?
I'm using SVN and I'm wondering about which part of the code base the users should test. The trunk (after the new feature branch has been merged in) or the branch?
If using the branch, how do you ...
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Version Control with SQL Server
I'm starting a new project and using SVN (with Tortoise) as my Version Control System. I was wondering if it was possible to also maintain a SQL Server Database using the same system.
I'd want to ...
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Tags or specify revision?
At my company, we have your typical svn structure. Each project has branches, tags and trunk.
repo
-Project A
* trunk
* branches
* tags
-Project B
* trunk
* branches
* tags
-Project C
* ...
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svn - when will I see conflicts?
I am just starting a new position and using svn rather than git (my favorite).
With svn if there are any conflicts will I see them after an svn update or after an (attempt) to svn commit?
In other ...
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Using SVN poorly - is Mercurial the answer?
At work we use SVN, but in name only. We don't branch or merge. We keep two copies of the repository, one serving as the "tag" branch that gets copied when we do a deployment and kept for bug fixes ...
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confusion between SVN and code backup by month/date/time whenever i make major or important update to the code
I am working on two different project simultaneously where whenever the changes are made we use
Tortoise SVN for project A
Backed up by folder for Project B (this is done by me on my system)
I ...
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Does it make sense to use a personal Amazon Cloud Drive to host an SVN repository?
I have 5GB of free storage on Amazon's Cloud Drive service that I'm not using, so I'm wondering: is it possible to create an SVN repository and be able to commit/update through TortoiseSVN?
I have an ...
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See number of SVN Checkins per folder [closed]
I have a very large SVN repository (working copy of several gb) that has just reached its 20,000th checkin. As a bit of an interesting statistic for our team (and to partly celebrate our 20,000th ...
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Where should we put External Libraries in our SVN?
We have the following SVN structure.
Projects: Our work
Clients: Projects for clients, needs to be different
Shared: Shared libraries we created
Docs: Documents explaining how software development ...
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Typically how many programmers on svn? [closed]
I've started implementing svn in my school projects. In the industry, typically how many programmers are sharing the same svn? Are the version numbers related to how many programmers are working on a ...
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What version control system can manage all aspects?
A few months ago I dug into Subversion and GIT and was disappointed. They handle SOURCE CODE fine but not other aspects. For example, a web site under version control needs to manage file/directory ...
