Subversion with Eclipse
Posted on 25 Jan, 2006, categorized under Information Insemination
It has been sometime that I’ve been working with the ecollege project now, and I’ve come to think that I need a meachanism to effectively have a revision history for the project. Previously what i did was to copy the working directory to the backup/revision directory something as the following:
$ cp -r /project/working/directory /project/backup/directory/<date>
It’s not really smart, but I’ve been practising it since I was doing my bachelor degree, and was good enough for assignments that even till now I’m promoting that method for my juniors. Well, at least it’s better for the students than having no versioning system at all where at one time when they screw up with the code they just couldn’t get to the previous working codes. I wonder myself what’s the percentage of university and college students that actually keep snapshots of their works as they are working on it..
Based on reviews and comparisons in the internet, I decided to go with subversion over CVS. Subversion plugin for Eclipse is subclipse and it can be found here. Subversion also has a great online book that have everything to get started, up to the advanced topic. 2 hours after knowing subversion, I’m already good to go with my eclipse + subversion, and here’s subclipse in action on my desktop:
The complete tutorial will be available in my wiki site.
