SVN vs Git There have been situation where I have preferred to stay with SVN and not move the repository to Git. There are 3 reasons why I stay with SVN vs Git: SVN is simple to use SVN allows checkout of sub-directories SVN encourages me to stay away from coding while traveling These reasons are not […]
Git vs SVN Lot of articles have been written about SVN, Git and their comparisons. To me, 3 reasons stand out why I choose Git vs SVN when feasible: Git gives me the entire version control repository I can do local commits and keep commit history with Git Git encourages me to version control directories […]
SvnNotify commits Emails about commits in SVN can be sent using svnnotify. Our system was set to send emails whenever there was any change to our repository. Our repository consisted of tags, trunk and branches. To make that happen, here’s what our <svn-repo>/hooks/post-commit file looked like: REPOS=”$1″ REV=”$2″ HANDLER=”HTML::ColorDiff” TO=”[email protected],[email protected]” FROM=”[email protected]” REPLY=”[email protected]” /usr/bin/svnnotify -C -H […]
TortoiseSVN and SSH non-standard port I came across the need to use TortoiseSVN on Windows 7. GNU/Linux hosted our SVN repository and we accessed it with SSH (svn+ssh://). SSH ran on a non-standard port of 55000. Here’s how I got TortoiseSVN and SSH non-standard port to work. Requirements SSH account It is assumed that you […]