Visual SVN / Visual SVN server setup

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I have got running Visual SVN /Server- really like the features. However, this is the first source control I have used like this.

I am currious as to how it works and where files are stored. On the server I created a repository, then set up a solution to point to that repository.

When I comit changes, where are the files stored?

What I would like to be able to do do:

* Have central file server with all project source files
* each developer machine checks in/out files from the main project server
* Choose where the main project files are kept.

Please can someone help shed some light how to do this?

Thanks
 
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The server stores the files in a database filesystem. Have a read up on Subversion on wikipedia and google for more info. Visual SVN Server is just a nice front end to Subversion.

Can do everything you mentioned also.
 

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so is it possible for the subversion server to get courrupt at all?

Obvioulsy will back up the respoitories folder, but can you recover files should something happen?
 
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Not in the way you mean.

You could backup both the actual source code files & the database file system files.

We use subversion at work for all company software and it has yet to go wrong after 10s of thousands of committs!
 

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thanks dan0r2.

reading and learning more. can't beleive i have lived with out this for so long!

Is there a way when you commit changes to the server, for the server then to commit changes to a specified folder (i.e a web directory)?
 
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Yes.

Subversion has pre and post commit events - that you can trigger scripts to run.

For web development we have a piece of software & various scripts that make up our 'deployment system' e.g. for releasing new versions of sites and also reverting to old. We do however use subversion in a linux environment for this, and so have the benefits of hard linking.

Subversion is pretty amazing, and it sounds like I was in a similar position to you!
 

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SET WORKING_COPY=c:\path\to\working\copy
svn update %WORKING_COPY%

is that all i need to do on post comit in Visual SVN server ?
 
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