Subversion Repositories

When I left Uni I had a what I thought was a good idea...to digitise all of my notes!

The reasoning was sound, I could digitise and sort my notes so they were sortable and easy to store in case I ever wanted to go back to them (and actually learn the stuff they taught me!). However, I quickly realised there were a couple of problems:
1. I have a lot of notes. 4 years worth of lectures, practicals and programs to be precise!
2. I don't have a scanner so OCR/scanning is out
3. I am not typing out that many notes

 So clearly we have to start small. Before I jump into scanning all my notes I decided to work out the storage mechanisms first.

There were a lot of programming modules on my course (well it was Electronic and Software Engineering!) so a source code repository seems like a good start.

I've used Visual SourceSafe from Microsoft before, unfortunately this would require a Windows Server License and a Visual Studio license. Both of these licenses are beyond my target cost of £0. Therefore it falls to another source code control system I've used, SubVersion.

The blurb from SubVersion is...

"Subversion is an open source version control system. Founded in 2000 by CollabNet, Inc., the Subversion project and software have seen incredible success over the past decade. Subversion has enjoyed and continues to enjoy widespread adoption in both the open source arena and the corporate world."

- http://subversion.apache.org/

It didn't take long to set up an Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS server, and then it was simply a matter of finding a tutorial and following it.

So it appears I am indebted to "Arbab" from "Lazy Geek -:)" for his post SVN Server on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS with Web Access.

It was concise and easy to understand, in less than hour I had my SVN server set up and working!

As with anything there were a couple of problems post install, though these were predominantly down to me not checking what I was doing. Such as forgetting to perform the chown step on new directories.

But it's now sorted, all I need to do is stop putting of digitising my notes and make a start!