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Installing Visual SVN Server

April 15, 2009 After being forced to re-install a Apache hosted Subversion service I decided to use Visual SVN Server and found the process of migrating from a existing multi-repository Apache Subversion service to be quite straight forward. I did learn a few things along the way that I wanted to share. Why I Had to do it. (a.k.a Whoops!) I did a dumb thing. I attempted to upgrade the version of our own existing Apache Subversion service in the middle of the day. You likely know how the rest goes, terribly. I Backed up all the files I was going to touch and dropped in the new .dlls in the right places and viola upgrade! right?. Not so much. The server didn’t start. So I reverted to my backups and the server still didn’t start. Oh noes!!!111one. Apache puked and people started…

Snackbyte: Implementation services should include source-code control

November 15, 2007 This is just a little snackbyte that I was thinking about today: Implementation services should include source-code control. Meaning, when a vendor helps a customer with implementation of the vendors product, part of the service should include source-code control. Not maybe. Not an extra cost. It's just part of the deal. Our implementations include custom web pages, config files, schema change files, dat files, etc. These should all be under version control. If the customer has an existing source code control system, great - use it. If not, put one in place. Subversion is free, is easy to use, and works great. Show the customer the value and ease of using a good source code control product. Just another way to add value to the customer. And when everyone starts doing this - take it to the next level. How…

CodePlex subverts our desires

November 6, 2007 I am really behind the curve on this but I was very excited when I heard that CodePlex is now supporting Subversion for source code control. After reading more closely it appears that they are merely providing bridgeware that allows you to use TortoiseSVN as a front end to CodePlex's Team Foundation Server. The number one new feature request from users is for CodePlex to support Subversion.  Specifically what users are telling us they want is the features and experience they get when using TortoiseSVN as a source control client.  It is important to us on the CodePlex team to provide our users the features they want and need to have the best experience possible, and so we will soon be offering support for using TortoiseSVN with CodePlex. How did their users' desire to have CodePlex add support for Subversion…

Subversion and Certificate Authorities

April 12, 2007 As I mentioned before we recently changed the URL of our subversion repository. We wanted to have a URL via SSL where our code could live for awhile. So I ventured over to InstantSSL.com and grabbed a 2 year certificate updated our DNS and life is good. No more of these right? svn up Error validating server certificate for 'https://svn.repository.com' - The certificate is not issued by a trusted authority. Use thefingerprint to validate the certificate manually!Certificate information:- Hostname: svn.repository.com- Valid: from Mon, 09 Apr 2007 06:00:00 GMT until Thu, 09 Apr 2009 05:59:59 GMT - Issuer: COMODO CA Limited, Salford, Greater Manchester, GB- Fingerprint: xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx(R)eject, accept (t)emporarily or accept (p)ermanently? This message is an annoyance at the user level and a huge waste of time when your have scripts or tools that start breaking because of it. The whole reason…

How to change the URL of your SVN repository

April 10, 2007 We just changed our Subversion repository's url from something terrible with custom port number hideousness to a URL so clean, concise and georgeous that I became brain damaged.   The old URL still works but I wanted to repoint all my checked out code to the new URL. I tried switch and it didn't work until Bret mentioned that Eclipse had something called relocate for this issue. A google search later...   command line: svn switch --relocate  <from URL> <to URL> Tortoise SVN:     I should have known all of this and likely did at one point but it just fell out of my brain.