Setting up Subversion on Windows For Personal Projects

I have been working on my Sun Certified Java Developer assignment recently and I decided to use Subversion for source control. This gives me the ability to roll back any mistakes and reassures me that my work is safely stored somewhere (in addition to my backups).

I am using VisualSVN Server. It comes bundled with Apache and everything you need to setup the server. Once this is installed, you might want to set it to authenticate using it's own user list instead of Windows authentication (I have one account for my home pc and it isn't password protected, something which Tortoise SVN client doesn't like. Maybe your client will accept empty passwords).



Go to the VisualSVN management console. Right click on the VisualSVN Server node and choose Properties. Click on the Authentication tab and select "Use Subversion Authentication". You can then add users by right clicking on the User node and choosing "Create User...". Each user can be added to repository and thats it!

Once VisualSVN is up and running, you can install something like Tortoise SVN client and away you go!