How to Setup SVN for remote access

Question

I am new to SVN thing. I have a remote server, windows server 2003. I want my team to commit their work on server on daily basis. I am choosing SVN for this task but I dont know what i need and from where to start? How the SVN will be configured on both the server and client side? I tried to read different tutorials. Some are outdated or some links are broken etc. So please help me out by keeping things simple. Please guide me what I need on server and client.

Thanks

Answer 1

Take a look at a Subversion Cheat Sheet on how to create a repository on your server.

svnadmin create d:/path_to_repository

Your clients must check out projects and commit code from and to this repository using the command line (see the cheat sheet for svn commands)

svn checkout file:///d:/repository_name/project/trunk project 

or a client like Tortoise SVN:

References:

• Subversion Book
• Quick Reference (common subversion commands)