Thread: Portable Revision Control Server (using Subversion)
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Re: Portable Revision Control Server (using Subversion)
We take our SVN server with us to competitions. It goes under the table with a 24 port switch setting on top of it. Great for code changes or reverts to previous tags or other points. We also use it to store our log files from each match. A student is responsible to get the log files from the driver station and commit them to the SVN repository for viewing on any of the computers we have with us, and of course back home. I set up the machine with a DHCP server so when a user in the pits connects they get an IP address that is compatible with the "real" IP address of the server. That way everyone’s access to the server is just like they see when they are at home or at the school. It is all hardwired. Two years ago in Atlanta I did a session about how to build a SVN server. After the session I had a team come up and tell me a horror story about how they lost their code in a crashed hard drive during competitions. If you are reading this and do not have version control I would highly recommend you figure it out and get some. It is wonderful!! One of those things after you have it for a while you wonder how you ever got along without it before.