Subversion : free repository hosting and client tools
Posted by goofy4u on March 21, 2006
I recently tried out the subversion hosting offered by opensvn.csie.org.
Setup took me about 10 minutes and it works as a charm. My only concern is about confidentiality : how can you be sure that your source code is not copied and used by the owners of the site? My guess is you can’t and you simply need to trust the guys… or set up your own webserver of course 🙂
For the rest I’d like to congratulate and thank the people of opensvn for their offered service which is completely free.
As a subversion client on windows I use tortoisesvn, a shell integrated svn tool that works very well. On linux the tkcvs tool version 8 has a lot of features and is easy to use, you can always use the command line as well :-). A vim/gvim plugin is also available at www.vim.org
Reflections on software development 
cnile said
If you are a java programmer and use Eclipse as your IDE then I can advice subclipse to you.
That way you can use svn right from in your development workbench. Very nice and handy!
witter said
Very needed information found here, thank you for your work
sleeplessboy said
http://wiki.ptt.cc/-OpenSVNFAQ
“OpenSVN is currently operated by several enthusiastic students
at [Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering], [National Taiwan University], [Taiwan], [R.O.C]. We think providing such service is great and we will keep it running and free.”
For your information only, I don’t think you should worry about letting the site owner user your code.
Camille Espanol said
For those of you who are great fans of subversion and tortoise svn, I recommend that you check http://www.cvsdude.com out. You can get a free professional remote repository, and if you’re willing to give away some gas money, just consider their professional account which is also great.
freddo said
thx for information.. helpfull thx so much
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