Installing Tortoise Subversion

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Downloading & Installing Tortoise SVN (32bit):

New instructions

http://tortoisesvn.tigris.org/

http://tortoisesvn.net/downloads

http://downloads.sourceforge.net/tortoisesvn/TortoiseSVN-1.6.7.18415-win32-svn-1.6.9.msi?download

Old instructions

  1. Go to your browser, copy and paste the web address into your URL "http://subversion.tigris.org/project_packages.html".
  1. The web page should have a title of "Subversion packets", and have a dark green theme.
  2. Scroll down the page, and look for Windows NT, 2000, XP and 2003.
  3. Look through the text for "If you want a pretty Win32 GUI, TortoiseSVN integrates nicely with the Window Explorer.", near the bottom. Click on the link highlight in blue (tortoiseSVN).
  4. Look for "Latest Version" in a green bar and underneath that, in the text look for "download page" and click it.
  5. You should be looking at a web page with a blue tortoise. The title should also be "TortoiseSVN".
  6. Look for the subheading "Download Application"
  7. Click on "TortoiseSVN-1.4.5.10425-win32-svn-1.4.5.msi 32 bit.
  8. You come to a web page with a URL starting with "http://sourceforge.net/............./",either a window automatically pops up asking whether to save or run, or you right click on a beige horizontal bar at the top of the web browser window, and select "Download file".
  9. Click Save, and save the file into your download folder. (make a folder named download, if you haven't already done so) then click Run, and click Run again.
  10. When the TortoiseSVN window set-up pops up, click next.
  11. Accept the terms, and click next.
  12. Click next again, then click Install.
  13. Then installation program will ask you to restart.