SVN How To Install

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Tutorial For Mac OS X
Perhaps someone could do a version for Windows and Linux users

Edit: Before you install this program with haste, I would recommend taking a trip to Martin Ott's Coding Monkey's page, where he keeps Mac OS X SVN Binaries up to date.
Be sure to read up on some installation tutorials before deciding on which version of SVN to install.

While you are there, I strongly recommend downloading SubEthaEdit for Mac. (Shareware), or there is a great Freeware version (tiny bit older version) here

1. Make sure you have SVN installed. If you don't have it installed, just go to http://subversion.tigris.org/project_packages.html#osx and select the second link, (the one without FINK). Download and Install.
   
   
2. Open Terminal
   
3. Add SVN to your PATH. Type these commands into the Terminal:
   For Bash:

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   touch ~/.bash_profile
open -e ~/.bash_profile

   
   For TCSH:

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   touch ~/.tcshrc
open -e ~/.tcshrc

   
   This will open the ~/.bash_profile or ~/.tcshrc file in TextEdit.
   
4. Now add the following line to the TextEdit file:
   For Bash:

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   export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/bin

   
   For TCSH:

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   setenv PATH /usr/local/bin:$PATH

   
   
5. Save and close the TextEdit .bash_profile file, then close your terminal window and open a new one. SVN should now be installed and configured correctly.
   
6. Decide where you would like your checkouts to be, I chose home/checkouts.
   To do this, in Terminal
   
   1. cd /Users/yourname
   2. mkdir checkout
   3. cd checkout
   
   You are now inside the checkout directory and can run all the SVN commands from here.
   
7. Get source code. Just paste

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   svn co http://cat-proof.de:4711/olympus

   into the Terminal, and it will download the code to your checkouts folder.

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Tutorial For Windows
This is easier than I thought

1. Download and install TortoiseSVN (for TortoiseCVS users - TortoiseSVN is a lot easier to use than that very very advanced and not user friendly TortoiseCVS)
   
2. Right-click on folder that will store checkouts, and click on SVN Checkout
3. Paste https://svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/olympus" target="_blank to the "URL of repository" field, and click "OK"

To update checkout select "SVN Update" from context menu of folder that store old checkout.

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Applications Recommended for Mac OS X

iSVN is a good basic Application. It has great speed, but sacrifices advanced features for it, but it has all the basic features and handling that you would need to more than get the job done.
Cost: Freeware

Product Requirements:


• Mac OS X 10.3 or later
  
• Subversion Client tools 1.3 or later for Mac OS X
  
• Knowledge of Subversion.

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SubCommander is a cross platform Win32, Unix and MacOSX Subversion GUI client and a visual text diff/merge tool.
SubCommander has all the features you would need to control every aspect of your Subversion experience, but it can be really really slow, and it has the ease of use equal to that of a Rubix Cube. But it is an essential tool when you need a feature that does not exist in one of the other programs... it has two other enduring features...
Cost: Freeware

Product Requirements:


• Subcommander does not depend on a local subversion installation.

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