Version 0.6
Copyright © 2009 Lars Vogel
27.01.2010
| Revision History | ||
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| Revision 0.1 | 10.06.2009 | Lars Vogel |
| Created Article | ||
| Revision 0.2 | 03.07.2009 | Lars Vogel |
| Included information about the different connectors | ||
| Revision 0.3 | 05.07.2009 | Lars Vogel |
| Ignored resources | ||
| Revision 0.4 | 22.07.2009 | Lars Vogel |
| Added link to subversive installation in Eclipse 3.4 | ||
| Revision 0.5 | 31.07.2009 | Lars Vogel |
| Minor rework | ||
| Revision 0.6 | 27.01.2010 | Lars Vogel |
| added subversion homepage | ||
Table of Contents
Subversion is a version control system. Subversion is based on libraries and executables written in the programming language C.
Eclipse Subversive is a plugin for Eclipse to use subversion (svn). The description of subversion, the setup of the svn server and the usage of subversion is out-of-scope for this article. This article will only describes the installation of subversion.
To use subversion from Eclipse you need the Eclipse plugins which extends Eclipse with the subversion functionality and you need connectors which allows to connect from Java to subversion.. Unfortunately the Eclipse UI plugins and the connectors are in different update sites due to license reasons with the connectors.
I know it is strange to have an article only for installing subversion. But due to the different update manager locations it is always time consuming to find the right URL and I wanted to store this information somewhere.
You have the choise between two svn connectors SVNKit and JavaHL. The differences between the connectors is described in Subversive Connectors .
The following description will use the JavaHL connectors.
The versions of the connectors correspond to the svn version.
Table 2. JavaHL
| Connector | svn version |
|---|---|
| JavaHL 1.5.4 Win32 Binaries and Native JavaHL 1.5 For SVN 1.5 | For SVN 1.5 |
| JavaHL 1.6.0 Win32 Binaries and Native JavaHL 1.6 For SVN 1.6 | For SVN 1.6 |
Tip
Use the Eclipse update manager to install "Subversive SVN Team Provider" from the Galileo Update site. See Eclipse update manager for details.
The following selection will install also Mylyn connectors for subversive.
Install the SVN connectors from the update site http://www.polarion.org/projects/subversive/download/eclipse/2.0/update-site/
Tip
If you select only 'Subversive SVN Connectors' feature, it will not install all connectors. If you want to install the connector, you need to set it explicitly.
After this you should have a working subversion installation.
Thank you for practicing with this tutorial.
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http://www.vogella.de/code/codeeclipse.html Source Code of Examples
http://www.eclipse.org/subversive/ Subversive home page
http://www.gammas.de/allgemein/svn-subversive-and-eclipse-galileo-rc-2/ How to use subversive behind a proxy