It took me long enough to figure this out to be worth documenting. If you use Windows, you can use TortoiseSVN with a local repository, installed by default on C:\svn. But you can also use TortoiseSVN to connect to a remote UNIX repository. They hook up through PuTTY, and the protocol is svn+ssh://. There are [...]

I set up a Subversion server on the FreeBSD box a while back, then didn't do much with it until this past weekend, when Software Carpentry mentioned it. I installed SmartSVN on the Ubuntu box and declared a new repository with a svn+ssh:// protocol. I figured it would make sense, since I connect to the [...]

It was about time, too. I'm an economist by trade and that harms my programming habits. But the more I program, the more I'm aware of that, so I guess all hope is not lost. I've been meaning to adopt some sort of version control for a long time now. I had already installed Subversion [...]