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Checkout a project from svn – the right way
Saturday, February 14th, 2009 by stevie
Do you use eclipse? Do you use svn? Did you ever checked out a new project into your workspace? If you could answer all these questions with a “yes” you might have noticed afterwards that you can’t do anything with this project because eclipse created it as “general project”, meaning no java, php or anything [...]
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Subversion and TortoiseSVN tips and tricks
Saturday, February 14th, 2009 by stevie
David Vidmar has collected a very interesting list of commands, tricks and tips which will certainly help you dealing with very common problems using TortoiseSVN or any other subversion client. Have a good look a the compiled list and be sure to bookmark it for the next crisis with TSVN… Link: Subversion and TortoiseSVN tips [...]
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Change the repository location in subversion
Tuesday, February 3rd, 2009 by Daff
I recently moved a subversion repository to another location and had to update all the Eclipse projects to the new URL. The clumsy way would be to checkout the whole project again from the new repository URL but there is also a command line way to easily switch everything (Subclipse doesn’t offer that possibility directly [...]
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Why use version control for solo developers or small teams
Wednesday, January 28th, 2009 by stevie
Since I started using version control systems like CVS and later on SVN I can’t remember how I could possibly work before. You might remember sentences like “But it worked yesterday!” or “Why the hell did I change that and when?” which were common companions when I looked at code I wrote a while back. [...]