Ben Griswold on January 9th, 2010

I shared this script with a coworker yesterday. It doesn’t do much; it recursively deletes .svn folders from a source tree.  It comes in handy if you want to share your codebase or you get in a terrible spot with SVN and you just want to start all over. Just blow away all svn [...]

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Ben Griswold on August 7th, 2008

 
UPDATE: Assembla.com has changed their ways.  The bottom line is their free, private spaces hosting option is no longer available.  In my opinion, they still have a valuable service, it’s simply not as great now that I have to pay for it.
 
A good while back, I commented about SVN Hosting through SVNRepository.com.  Well, [...]

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Ben Griswold on July 31st, 2008

When you first access your SVN repository you are given the option to save your authentication information.   Nice feature, right?   Well, what if you need to access the repository via different credentials? 
Here’s the trick:

Right-click on the root folder
Select TortoiseSVN
Select Settings
Navigated to Saved Data
Clear the stored Authentication Data

The next time you need to access the [...]

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Ben Griswold on July 22nd, 2008

I’ve previously written about managing your Subversion repositories via the TortoiseSVN client.  TortoiseSVN integrates with Windows Explorer and provides a really slick way to do things like view the status of your source code, update your Subversion working copy and commit change.
But as slick as it is, TortoiseSVN requires one to bounce between their IDE [...]

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Ben Griswold on February 3rd, 2007

Since being turned onto SVN no so long ago, I’ve been looking for hosting.  Per a recommendation spotted here, I picked up an account with SVN Repository about two weeks ago.  So far, it’s been a flawless experience.
Here’s what I can tell you:  I purchased their small business plan which gives me 2GB of space, [...]

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Ben Griswold on January 19th, 2007

Over the past decade, I’ve primarily used two version control products: Visual Source Safe and Borland StarTeam.  I was “forced” into using StarTeam about 5 years ago, but having used it day-in and day-out for so long, I’ve come to recognize it as the superior of the two products (hands down.)  Through blogs and open [...]

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