So after the installation of VisualSVN 1.4, I don't think I'll ever look back. Finally a version of Visual Studio source control integration to make me leave the realms of Visual Source Safe forever. Now VisualSVN has put all the most important commands one click away. Not to mention, they added a couple things to make life a little easier for SVN newbies like myself.
Here we will go over some of my favorite new features added to this newest release. If you are familiar with the Subversion approach to a multideveloper environment then you will love the new VisualSVN toolbar. It puts the commands most often used in a position for single-click access to source control for your project. The commands accessible from the toolbar are Show Changes, Update, Commit, Branch, Switch, and Merge. Not to mention showing you your working repository URL.
Now as some of you may have read, they also have taken the Add Solution dialog and converted it to a wizard. This is great news for me, seeing as how the dialog was a bit confusing the first time I ever used it. Now with the new easy to use wizard, it is easier than ever to add my solutions to my repository. Let me walk you through it. First, from the VisualSVN menu, click "Add Solution to Subversion".
On the first dialog, it will yell at you if your solution is not in a folder called "working copy root". That is fine, just tick the box saying that you will set it manually and click the next button.
Now we set our working copy root and click next.
Now we just tell it where our repository location is. It gives the options of creating a new repository or adding to an existing repository. In this instance, I'm going to create a new repository.
Now all that is left to do is import the solution to Subversion. The next screen will tell you that it is going to create the default branch, tag and trunk folder structure for the repository. Just click import already.
That will do it. The final step of the wizard is just lets you know the import was successful. Upon clicking finish, you are a commit away from having your project in Subversion.
There you have it! Just click the commit button and you are officially under source control. Now for those who don't know, VisualSVN also makes a Subversion server. These are just a couple of new features. I also really like the Quick Diff functionality. I truly think they have done a great job with this one. If you haven't tried it then now should be the time. The sooner you are in source control, the sooner you can roll back mistakes!
Hope this helps.
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