Possible to use Subversion without a Host? That is, locally

Question

I am starting a small project in Eclipse(plus Tigris) and I'd like to try out Subversion on it. I don't have any repository on the web.

Do I need to have a repository on the web to be able to use source control? From what I've been looking all Eclipse allows me to do is to either checkout from a Host or add a new repository (from a Host).

I've been using Mercurial for a while and all I needed was to do a folder_name init to add that folder to source control. How to do the same with Subversion?

Answer 1

Subversion makes this easy. You can create a local repository on your system and reference it using file:// paths.

See http://tortoisesvn.net/docs/release/TortoiseSVN_en/tsvn-repository.html#tsvn-repository-create-commandline for how to create using either the TortoiseSVN GUI, or the command-line.

NOTE TortoiseSVN is a graphical front-end for Subversion, implemented as a Windows Explorer extension. It makes lots of common Subversion tasks really painless. Subversion of course ships with a command-line client so it's your choice which to use.