On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 00:01, Philip Garofalo <philgarofalo_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> Sorry about the newbieness, but I managed to find a very nice site that does
> describe how to setup TortoiseSVN on a single machine:
> http://www.fredshack.com/docs/tortoisesvn.html.
Be advised that page is nearly 2 years old. A lot can change in 2 years.
If you have solid, constructive feedback on how to improve the
official TSVN documentation for "newbies" I'm sure it would be
well-received.
> On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 10:05 PM, Phil <philgarofalo_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hello there, I'm a solo developer and I simply want to use TortoiseSVN
>> for version control on my single, non-LAN PC. That is, I'd like to
>> create a repository on my drive C:. Is there a simple, step-by-step,
>> tutorial anywhere that will explain how to do this? I can't seem to
>> find one.
>>
>> Creating a local repository is easy enough, but the problem is that
>> the "Add" command doesn't appear in the TortoiseSVN pop-up context
>> menu when I right click on the directory containing source files I'd
>> like version control. Apparently, I presume I need to run a server,
>> but this isn't clear from the doc. Questions:
>>
>> 1. Do I need to download and install Subversion? Or Apache? Or the
>> FSFS or Berkeley database? This isn't necessary with TortoiseCVS as it
>> includes CVS, but TortoiseSVN doesn't appear to include Subversion.
>> There's no svnadmin.exe anywhere on my drive after installing it.
>>
>> 2. Section 3 in the TortoiseSVN help states that if you work alone a
>> server isn't necessary or maybe it is, but you don't have to configure
>> it. You only need to create a local repository. Did that, still no Add
>> command.
>>
>> 3. I am able to use TortoiseSVN with remote servers like the Boost
>> Sandbox. So there doesn't appear to be anything wrong with the
>> installation.
>>
>> 4. The local repository I created is visible in the Repo-Browser, but
>> only it's name appears (probably because I haven't been able to add
>> anything to it).
>>
>> Thanks in advance,
>>
>> Phil
>
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