Version Control with SVN

[garypigott]

Theres a great little freeware version control tool called Tortoise SVN (subversion) its effectively a souped up windows equivalent of Unix source code control and gives the ability to set up code repositories allowing you to check in/check out code and keep a version history of all changes you make (works for code, documents etc).

Its a bit of a faff to set up but once its all working and you've defined the repositories its really quite simple - includes tools like version diff really useful for comparing current code with old versions (especially if you've just introduced a bug).

Anyway Google it and see what you think, it might come in useful.
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[tomjeatt]

Thanks Gary - probably going to come in useful for my thesis project!

[garypigott]

Version control might be something that David could be cover in the course - I use Unix SCCS all the time and used the Windows offering (Tortoise) in a previous job, and for large scale devs it really is useful.

[David]

Gary, it's not something I have time for unfortunately, but you could always choose to present a seminar on version control as part of James' Content Management course next term.

[garypigott]

Hi David, I'm not an expert but I would be very happy to give a demo of its use and features and then people could choose (or not) to download and install for themselves