Subversion and TortoiseSVN help?
by BrokeAss Games · in Technical Issues · 11/27/2005 (10:54 am) · 9 replies
I'm looking for a little help and would like to pass on a lesson I learned.
Recently I purchased a Western Digital Caviar 120GB hard drive.
I backed up all of game development tools and game revisions onto this drive.
Considering the drive was brand new, I stopped backing up my work on CD (BIG MISTAKE).
Two days ago I suffered a hardware failure on the drive.
Anyways, to pass on the lesson, always backup your work onto removable media or Murphy's Law may come down on you like a ton of bricks.
Recently I have installed Subversion and TortoiseSVN onto a remote server (about to install a DVD burner on that machine for obvious reasons) and imported my project.
Currently I have a huge workload (game and non-game related) and I'm also having trouble understanding how to use Subversion remotely.
My day job consists of running an ISP so resources are not an issue.
Can anyone provide a simple understanding of how to setup remote access to Subversion?
I know alot of people here use it (including GG), but I just can't seem to wrap my head around it.
I'm currently reading the manual cover to cover but any help is greatly appreciated.
Ari
"If it doesn't kill you, it will make you stronger..."
Recently I purchased a Western Digital Caviar 120GB hard drive.
I backed up all of game development tools and game revisions onto this drive.
Considering the drive was brand new, I stopped backing up my work on CD (BIG MISTAKE).
Two days ago I suffered a hardware failure on the drive.
Anyways, to pass on the lesson, always backup your work onto removable media or Murphy's Law may come down on you like a ton of bricks.
Recently I have installed Subversion and TortoiseSVN onto a remote server (about to install a DVD burner on that machine for obvious reasons) and imported my project.
Currently I have a huge workload (game and non-game related) and I'm also having trouble understanding how to use Subversion remotely.
My day job consists of running an ISP so resources are not an issue.
Can anyone provide a simple understanding of how to setup remote access to Subversion?
I know alot of people here use it (including GG), but I just can't seem to wrap my head around it.
I'm currently reading the manual cover to cover but any help is greatly appreciated.
Ari
"If it doesn't kill you, it will make you stronger..."
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#2
Back on track now, but lesson learned. :)
Ari
11/28/2005 (11:22 am)
Using GetDataBack for NTFS I was able to recover my hard drive.Back on track now, but lesson learned. :)
Ari
#3
But yeah, backing up to removable, long-term media is still a really good idea.
edit: it was pretty easy to set up, and was even sharable between linux and XP.
11/28/2005 (11:27 am)
I put two 120GB drives as a single 120GB raid-1 drive into my most recent system and the sense of security it gives me is a wonderful thing.But yeah, backing up to removable, long-term media is still a really good idea.
edit: it was pretty easy to set up, and was even sharable between linux and XP.
#4
01/01/2006 (5:09 pm)
Um... this was a backup, right? So you still had the original data on your main drive... right? So why are you worried about losing a backup drive? Just replace it and re-backup your system - or am I missing something?
#5
I lost 4 drives simultaneously.
The NTFS got corrupted.
Scary stuff, but I learned.
Ari
01/01/2006 (5:20 pm)
@PhilipI lost 4 drives simultaneously.
The NTFS got corrupted.
Scary stuff, but I learned.
Ari
#6
01/13/2006 (7:14 am)
I think subversion is pretty sucky. I recently got a free copy of Perforce which has a way better GUI front-end (like Visual SS). Of course I don't know what OS you're running on.
#7
01/13/2006 (7:47 am)
Subversion is free, period. Regardless of uses/users. Perforce is free for two users IIRC. After that it's a commercial product that can cost a pretty penny.
#8
01/13/2006 (9:42 am)
Difflog and compare with working copy = subversion for the win biotches.
#9
Very true. But a huge number of indies (over 50% from what I read) are either lone wolves or in a team of 2 - so a free 2-user license of a high-quality professional system is probably of interest to this community?
Jonathon:
I'm not quite sure what your point is? Those features are hardly special to SVN - or were you responding to someone else's post?
01/16/2006 (12:22 am)
Stephen:Very true. But a huge number of indies (over 50% from what I read) are either lone wolves or in a team of 2 - so a free 2-user license of a high-quality professional system is probably of interest to this community?
Jonathon:
I'm not quite sure what your point is? Those features are hardly special to SVN - or were you responding to someone else's post?
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Looks fairly simple. :)
Any tips/tricks are still greatly appreciated.
Ari