Sunday, April 6, 2008

It's time to put my flash stuff into proper source control. There are three pretty good options that I've used before. Microsoft's SourceSafe is already on my computer (legally, I think), but it's kind of famously bad. Subversion is open source. Perforce is good and doesn't have a licensing fee for the first two users.

I went with Subversion once I figured out first that you don't need to run a server to use Subversion on just one machine. Also, the app TortoiseSVN integrates Subversion with Windows Explorer nicely.

It took a few hours of fiddling around to get my repository the way I want it, but now it's all set up. C:\svn is the repository, and C:\trunk is my working folder (the little check marks by the files tells you it's working.)

There's a good free O'Reilly book on Subversion, but really the TortoiseSVN documentation is a better read and includes everything I need to know about Subversion for now.

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