Articles from May 2008



AnkhSVN 2.0 Nightly Builds Available

AnkhSVN, the Subversion plugin for Visual Studio, is under active development. Expect version 2.0 shortly after Subversion 1.5.

Subversion 1.5 Final Release Candidate Available

The (probably) final release candidate for Subversion 1.5 is out. Read what has changed since the previous release candidate, and download binaries for testing.

Mirror Management: How Often Should I Sync?

You’ve setup Subversion mirrors. How often should should you mirror? Should you synchronize often with a smaller number of changes, or only once in a while with larger amount? Subversion committer C. Michael Pilato gives his view.

Subversion 1.5 Merge Tracking and Mergeinfo

Mergeinfo is simply the history of merges made into a path. But as with many things that can be described so simply, mergeinfo can become a bit more complex in practice. Read Paul’s Burba’s blog post and article and learn about the internals of Subversion’s merge tracking feature.

Subversion 1.5 RC5

Earlier this week, the Subversion community issued an RC5 release with the latest round of fixes. As we have done with previous releases, CollabNet is providing binaries for Windows, Linux, OSX and Solaris. The CollabNet Merge client and Subclipse have both been updated as well. Here is a list of some of the noteworthy fixes [...]

Subversion 1.5 Merge Tracking and Mergeinfo (Article)

This article assumes basic familiarity with the topics covered in chapter 4 of the Subversion book and/or some experience with Subversion 1.5; either the early adopter 1.5 binaries available on open.collab.net or one of the 1.5.0 release candidates.  The examples in this article were done with release candidate 4.  As of May 6, 2008 the most [...]