Hi,
I am using Windows7 and I do lot of Java coding in Eclipse. But I dont have a version control system. I have heard of Subversion being a very popular VCS, so I would like to set it in my local box. Can you please give me some pointers on where to start/look at?
I would like to checkin/checkout files using Eclipse. Please guide me.
Thanks
If you're on windows it's difficult not to go with VisualSVN. As for Eclipse you can get an eclipse plugin here
Subclipse http://subclipse.tigris.org/ is a plugin for eclipse that allows you to checkout / in files inside of the eclipse IDE.
It doesn't get SVN set up on your machine, you'll need to install svn and set up a repository first, but the integration with eclipse is nice to have.
First, you'll need a Subversion repository, which can either be a remote server on the internet (google "free subversion repository"), or a server running locally on your machine, or a machine on your lan. For the last one, you can use VisualSVN Server.
Once with a SVN repository setup, you have to install a SVN client to work with it. I recommend TortoiseSVN for general stuff, but I'm pretty sure Eclipse has SVN support builtin, so once you've setup a repository server, you just have to configure the client on Eclipse to connect to it.
If you're the only person who needs to access the repository, you can create a svn repository on your filesystem and you won't need to install and run a server.
http://vincenthomedev.wordpress.com/2007/10/15/setup-svn-local-repository-step-by-step/
Subclipse is a great SVN plugin for Eclipse, you might also find TortoiseSVN very handy as well. Both are very easy to use.