Subversion is difficult for most (gui) people because it is a command line application with many required executables (svnadmin, svnlook, svn, etc..).

I feel your pain, but as suggested above, the gui apps are from 3rd party providers – svn works just fine if you (take the long tortuous route to get to) know it.

Where do you make a repository? Good question! The answer is – anywhere it makes sense for you! On SUSE the suggested (by gui apps) location is /srv/www/svn or /srv/svn – RedHat and others would be /var/www/svn or /var/svn – it would be nice if subversion “suggested” a default location.

Fortunately my 1st experience of subversion was via SourceForge Enterprise, so it was mostly positive, but is not viable for most users (a kernel upgrade requires a recompile and it may not work for the new kernel). usvn is very cool as it has an install routine that takes care of most things for you and even suggests the webdav config for apache, and has security to boot! After trying a few gui apps, this is the one I recommend for (gui) managing repositories easily.

Try Eclipse IDE (Subclipse = svn plugin – just get EasyEclipse to save the headaches) for Linux or Win, or Tortoise for Win is good too for almost everything you will want to do.

I just got my own USB rocket launcher Awsome thing.

Plug into your computer and you got a remote controlled office missile launcher with 360 degrees horizontal and 45 degree vertival rotation with a range of more than 6 meters – which gives you a coverage of 113 square meters round your workplace.
You can get the gadget here: http://tinyurl.com/2qul3c

Check out the video they have on the page.

Cheers

Marko Fando

http://www.thehotstop.info

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