[george seifert]

We're a relatively small development group. There will probably be at most 3 people (but usually just me) accessing the code. Do you know if it's necessary to have a special server or could we just have the repository on a network drive? If we do set it up that way at first would it be hard to migrate to a server later if necessary?

George

[mike5]

george seifert, on 03 June 2010 - 01:27 PM, said:

We're a relatively small development group. There will probably be at most 3 people (but usually just me) accessing the code. Do you know if it's necessary to have a special server or could we just have the repository on a network drive? If we do set it up that way at first would it be hard to migrate to a server later if necessary?

George

It's a Subversion question, but anyway... As soon as you have more than one developer you need to access repository through a server. Otherwise you're just begging for repository corruption.

Br, Mike

[Biometrology]

george seifert, on 03 June 2010 - 01:27 PM, said:

We're a relatively small development group. There will probably be at most 3 people (but usually just me) accessing the code. Do you know if it's necessary to have a special server or could we just have the repository on a network drive? If we do set it up that way at first would it be hard to migrate to a server later if necessary?

George, you could do this (I did) - but I wouldn't necessarily recommend it.
One of the problems of keeping the repository on a network drive is that any random person can accidentally move, delete or rename the path to them.

To move from the shared drive to a server I had to do the following steps (from memory):
export the repository using Subversion (I had to install it just to do this).
The very large file resulting then had to be imported into the new repository on the server by one of our IT guys
All the working copies then have to be changed to point at the new repositories (using the relocate command)
This only works if the repository has not changed since you exported it!!!!

Hope this guides your decision....

Alex

[george seifert]

Thanks guys. Sounds like I better get IT involved from the get go.

Sorry I knew it was a Subversion question (I am using it for LV though), but I knew how helpful everyone is anyway.
George

[Shaun Hayward]

george seifert, on 03 June 2010 - 03:15 PM, said:

Thanks guys. Sounds like I better get IT involved from the get go.

Sorry I knew it was a Subversion question (I am using it for LV though), but I knew how helpful everyone is anyway.
George

There's a great free (although it also has a paid "pro" version) subversion server called VisualSVN Server (http://visualsvn.net/server/) - it is super easy to modify repositories, etc and even plays nicely with Active Directory if your on a Windows Domain setup.

Shaun