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Subversion (svn) in Eclipse (Subversive)

Lars Vogel

Version 0.7

21.04.2010

Revision History
Revision 0.110.06.2009Lars Vogel
Created Article
Revision 0.203.07.2009Lars Vogel
Included information about the different connectors
Revision 0.305.07.2009Lars Vogel
Ignored resources
Revision 0.422.07.2009Lars Vogel
Added link to subversive installation in Eclipse 3.4
Revision 0.531.07.2009Lars Vogel
Minor rework
Revision 0.627.01.2010Lars Vogel
added subversion homepage
Revision 0.721.04.2010Lars Vogel
Added link to bug for proxy and connector discovery

Install Subversive into Eclipse to use SVN

The following describes the installation of Eclipse subversive and gives a short comparison of the different svn connectors.


Table of Contents

1. Eclipse Subversive
2. Connectors
3. Installation
4. Appendix: Tips
4.1. Ignored resources
5. Thank you
6. Questions and Discussion
7. Links and Literature
7.1. Source Code
7.2. Eclipse Subversive Resources
7.3. vogella Resources

1. Eclipse Subversive

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.