Install Subversion (svn) client
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Kuiyu Chang
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last modified
Aug 25, 2008 04:42 PM
- Windows
- You are strongly encouraged to install the command line subversion client under cygwin (see below). Only when you are familiar with the basic svn commands should you consider using a GUI svn client such as TortoiseSVN (for windows). Google
svn GUI(windows and java versions available, Eclipse comes with support for subversion). - Cygwin
- Install cygwin under Windows. Then install the svn client using cygwin-setup. svn is not included by the default cygwin installation.
- Unix/Linux
- Install the svn package for your favorite Unix/Linux distribution. svn is not included by default in most distributions.
For Ubuntu linux, install subversion client using ubuntu package manager, or the following commands (the sudo command first switches you to the root user):
sudo bash apt-get install subversion - Configuration
- Important: if your web-access is censored by a http proxy (e.g. within NTU), please read SVN configuration
