Getting Started

I second (third?) that motion. I can't seem to authenticate for checkin, so my project is empty

ashbygreg: Good point. For svn documentation, see http://svnbook.red-bean.com/. You would want to use 'svn add' and then 'svn commit' if you have new code. Or, use the 'svnsync' utility if you have an existing svn repository.

I fourth the motion to explain checking in. A newbie-proof explanation would be nice, like "from your command-line application, type 'blah_blah_blah...'" I know, I know, read the svnbook! But it looks like it assumes root access to the repository.

I am so lost, on how this works.... I am new to HTML and web programming, I already finished a complex app. in open social. I started learning to program less then a month... I am trying to understand how to post code and call the code from and outside, website.

this initial checkin worked for me (svn under Cygwin installed):

$ cd ..   # out of your pre-svn project directory, YOURLOCALDIR/
$ svn import YOURLOCALDIR https://YOURPROJECTNAME.googlecode.com/svn/trunk -m 'initial import'
$ rm -rf yourlocaldirhere/  # you don't need it, you will checkout from google
$ svn checkout https://YOURPROJECTNAME.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ YOURPROJECTNAME --username yourusername

Using instructions provided by bheckel worked for me. Recommend adding a folder name to the import so that files in your project don't appear at the trunk/ level. Like so: $ svn import YOURLOCALDIR https://YOURPROJECTNAME.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/YOURLOCALDIR -m 'initial import'

If using NetBeans? 6.x (upgrade to 6.5- it downloads a useable svn client automagically) don't try to import using the plug-in, just use the command line as above. But DO use the plug-in to checkout the files- you can even checkout over an existing project and it will magically now be under version control!

@fishribs: good point about trunk, thanks

Is it possible to rename the project or the only way is to delete it and create a new one?

Here's how to import your project using TortoiseSVN, the most popular Windows SVN client.

I assume you have created your Google Code (GC) project and it is called PROJECT and that the local source you want import is in a directory tree rooted at SOURCE.

a) Go to your GC home page and select the "Profile" menu - this will give you your UID and then click the "Settings" tab to find your PASSWORD - this is not the same as your gmail password.

b) In Windows explorer, right click n your SOURCE directory to get the Tortoise context menu and choose "Import..." This will pop up a dialog asking for the repository url. Enter the following:

https://PROJECT.googlecode.com/svn/trunk

c) You will be prompted for a userid & password - enter UID and PASSWORD described above.

Your project should now be uploaded to the GC repository. From now on you can use the Tortoise repo-browser and other tools to access it via the url above.

Add my vote to the need for some easy-to-find getting started guide. Although previously a "heavy user" I haven't used Unix/Linux much for nearly a decade. Until today, all I could find was the FAQ that said something to the effect that to get you code into the hosted project "just use" svn import. Hmmm... svn, that rings a bell. But after a weekend of going through the svn book I'm still pretty clueless on how to get my code off my PC and into Google code hosting. Do I FTP it? Do I do something like the doc says for Google Base? Do I really need a full Subversion server install on my PC? Or just a client like Turtle... Once its set up, how do I "rlogin" to my /svn to adminster Subverson?

So its been 6 months and us noobs are still in need of some orienting help, easily findable from the Source tabbed page. With the info previously from bheckel, fishribs, and nbutterworth1953 I might be able to figure it out with another few hours of wasted time. (Yes, I realize these are things I probably should know, but I'm assuming the purpose of Google code hosting is to put shared projects within reach without needing a seasoned administrator on your team...).

Any due apologies for the length of this comment and its bordering a rant. Google code looks so cool and seems so close and easy, except for a newbie starting up a svn code base.

After much confusion, I solved the authentication problem when you first create a project: you need to use your "googlecode.com" password, not your regular google account password. you can find that here: http://code.google.com/hosting/settings

Is there any system to get statistics on your project besides the download. Maybe like page views. Also, statistics compared with other projects?

What I'd like is a way to: + Diff a wiki page to know what has changed. Even as a project owner I have no clue when a user changes a page. + Get notification when someone posts a comment on a wiki page.

Yes, normal wiki pages with history and undo are very welcome :)

Can unlogin user post the issues ?

I got it working using this: http://internetducttape.com/2007/03/03/howto_google_code_hosting_subversion_tortoisesvn/

You also need to write how to remove projects. I created a test project to see how to work this thing before I go into the real deal. Now I can't remove it because I can't find any "delete" or "remove" buttons. I also noticed another person in the help section has a problem with the same thing.

Found the deletion thing. Administer -> Advanced -> Delete Project.

Can post info about create a project with Hg.

俺看不懂洋文。。。。

有了网的源代码

quessy and ovnicr...: Mercurial is not available yet. We are only offering it to a few people for testing. Check back for an announcement when it is available to everyone.

arlicle: No. Users must sign in to enter issues or leave comments. We must have that rule to help reduce spam comments.

buserror: You can set up an email address that will be notified whenever a wiki comment is left: is it under Administer -> Wiki.

Wiki pages are stored in subversion, so ever wiki change can also trigger a commit email: that is specified under Administer -> Source. And, you can view changes and diffs under the Source tab.

能不能弄个中文的啊，虽然通过各种方法能基本了解，太累啊

So many guys here need a guide in Chinese. Anybody here wants to translate it ?

@harry.hit: You seem to speak chinese and english, so you should translate it.

天啊。只会中文怎么混啊。好东西全是英文的。英文太重要了。

Do you allow Mercurial users to set up more than one repo? Many projects which use Mercurial store branches in different repositories rather than branching in one repo as in SVN. Bitbucket does this and the Git hosting sites like GitHub?, Gitorious etc allow it as well.

using svn under cygwin to upload any file to your depot.

- install cygwin subversion

(see cygwin install from, only need the install cygwin portion) \ http://ist.berkeley.edu/as-ag/tools/howto/cygwin.html)

start a shell > export SVN_SSH=ssh$

to add a file to your depot

> svn import $some_file https://$your_project.googlecode.com/svn/$some_file \ -m $some_message --username $your_user_name --password $your_password

delete a file from the depot $ svn delete https://$your-project.googlecode.com/svn/$some_file \ --username $your_user_name \ --password $your_password \ -m some_message

why svn has to install in pc! why not google make a on_web svn?

WuZhenda?, Subversion (svn) is version control software. It needs to be able to access files anywhere on your PC, create, modify, and delete any file, check the last modified time of files, etc. and a web-based client for two-way Subversion would not work.

Even if it let you edit the repository directly (no local storage), there is the inherent problems that the editor would probably suck.

To checkout the svn trunk from the google-appengine folder on command line (in Linux), if you get a folder in a folder, (like you get from bheckles method above) replace the folder name with a .

svn checkout https://myappName.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ . --username myemailName

now it makes a new folder

很好用~

就是没有中文的，不爽嘛。

Can you add "public domain" or "no license" as a category in the source code license? Is there a specific reason this is not available?

英文！

Sure would be nice if there was an automated way to produce a compressed download file with version number from the svn source tree.

It would also be nice if one could have a versionless download link to particular files that simply reflected the current version of that file in the svn

have not a screen-shot tab???

The red-bean.com links do not seem to work any longer.

很强大！！

删除项目 。。重建和改名如何操作

is it possible to delete a project?

CN 来报道~