Subversion is quite nice

Well I just finished my first night of coding using Subversion as my source control repository and I have to say I'm not sure I'll go back to Vault, or VSS anytime soon.  I've been using the VS.NET plug-in with good success.  The one issue I did run into was when I tried to replace a project folder.  When I removed the folder I wiped out the .svn folder and when I created the new project I tried committing without luck.  I was getting a svn: working copy not locked error.  I did a svn update, deleted the project file (note the .svn was not deleted) and then added the project via "Create project in existing directory".  A new svn commit -m "some message" and I was back in business.  I also installed TortoiseSVN tonight which seems to work quite well.

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# re: Subversion is quite nice

Monday, July 26, 2004 4:32 PM by Walker    
Sounds interesting..


# re: Subversion is quite nice

Monday, July 26, 2004 4:42 PM by Jonne Kats    
I'm using it for my hobby projects, together with some friends, but I'm liking it aswell.

# re: Subversion is quite nice

Monday, July 26, 2004 7:36 PM by Thomas Eyde    
Subversion or Tortoise or the combination of both has a Visual Studio issue, at least for web projects: VS has problems with the subversion folder name (".svn"). You see the symptom as "Can't read the folder information" when you open the project, or "The folder is not empty" when you try to move a folder.

# re: Subversion is quite nice

Tuesday, July 27, 2004 12:32 AM by Jim Bolla    
Thomas--

This article will explain how to do asp.net apps w/o using web projects, thus solving the problem.

<a target="_new" href="http://www.pluralsight.com/fritz/Samples/aspdotnet_without_web_projects.htm">http://www.pluralsight.com/fritz/Samples/aspdotnet_without_web_projects.htm</a>


# re: Subversion is quite nice

Tuesday, July 27, 2004 3:07 AM by Steve    
I'm using the method Jim points out and thus avoiding the issue. So far its worked out fine...I'll post more thoughts as my experiences grow...

# re: Subversion is quite nice

Tuesday, July 27, 2004 5:26 PM by Thomas Williams    
G'day Steve, I was after your opinion. I'm a single developer, I have used CVS but stopped using it about 6 months ago owing to a server rebuild, and I was just about ready to try Vault. I develop using VS.NET.

My question: Are you saying that you switched to Subversion from Vault, and Subversion worked better for you?

# re: Subversion is quite nice

Tuesday, July 27, 2004 10:31 PM by Steve    
I did switch from Vault to Subversion. I've only been using Subversion for about a week but so far I like what I see. I know a lot of people really like Vault but for whatever reason it never really won me over. I had lots of little nagging issues with the VS.NET integration, and recently it more or less just stopped working, which caused me to give Subversion a look. I'll report back with an update after I spend a little more quality time with Subversion.

# re: Subversion is quite nice

Wednesday, July 28, 2004 12:17 AM by Jeff Gonzalez    
I think as soon as you stop worrying about VS.NET integration, your source control woes will be solved. I stopped using the IDE with SCM apps when we switched to CVS. TortoiseCVS was coolest thing ever. We have switched to using subversion now and for the most part it has been pretty nice. We have noticed some weird issues with it, but overall its pretty good.

# re: Subversion is quite nice

Wednesday, July 28, 2004 1:02 AM by Steve    
I've actually found myself using the command line and TortoiseSVN more then the VS.NET integration recently so perhaps I'll just move towards it completely.

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