Thinking Aloud!

Finally I got both svn server and client working on my computer. First I wanted to do it in the "pure" way. So I downloaded and installed the collabnet subversion server and the tortoise svn client . Installation was easy, but setting them up for the first time wasn't that easy.So, I read  the "svn book " and it was great for getting my version controlling fundamentals cleared. But it seemed a bit of hassle to get the server and client to setup properly.

Then I came to know about VisualSVN server and it was like a breeze to install and use! Installation is exactly same as any other windows software and you can do all the repository management right from the GUI. Then I installed svn plugin for Eclipse . This article from IBM is all you need to install the plugin and use svn with Eclipse. Now I have a working repository for my code on my computer and can do the check-ins and check-outs right from Eclipse :)

And as a bonus for my work, I just found out that googlecode website also uses svn for its repository. I have downloaded the code of the demo game that was talking about yesterday and will now start tinkering with it as a final step for starting coding for my own game!