Installing and Using Tortoise Subversion

I put up an old version of OpenQM on subversion at http://openqm.neosys.com/openqm for people to play with. No authorisation is required to download, commit or manage the repo. Do what you like with it. Like wikipedia, all previous versions remain and anyway this is just a sandbox.

On windows download and install the superb tortoise svn client from http://tortoisesvn.tigris.org/

Getting the initial files

1. create a folder
2. open it
3. right click empty space and choose SVN Checkout

to get the "current" version

http://openqm.neosys.com/openqm/trunk

Or to get all possible branches and versions (there are none at the moment)

http://openqm.neosys.com/openqm

Committing

• after making any changes right click on your new folder and choose Commit
• files you delete are not deleted on the repository - you have to use repo browser below to do that
• new files you want to add to the repo have to be ticked.
• You cannot commit files that other people have updated since you got them - use Update to resolve before

Getting other peoples commits

1. right click on your folder and choose Update - you will get diffs to resolve any conflicts with changes you made

To manage the repository

1. Right click anywhere and choose Subversion, Repo browser.
2. You can cut and paste files, folder etc. (all smoke and mirrors) they are not actually copied. Branches and versions are just copied folders

Documentation

• right click desktop, tortoisesvn, help
• http://svnbook.red-bean.com/ - includes a reorientation appendix for CVS users
• this is the very basics, there are many many many useful features