I still very new using Subversion.
Is it possible to have a working copy on a network available share (c:\svn\projects\website) that everyone (in this case 3 of use) can checkout and commit files to? We don’t need a build server because it is an asp site and the designers are used to having immediate results when they save a file. I could try and show them how to set it up local on their machines but if we could just share the files on the development server and still have the ability to commit when someone is done, that would be ideal.
An easy solution would be for all of us to use the same subversion username and that would at least allow me to put files under version control.
But is it possible to checkout a folder from the svn respository but still require each person to login with their user/pass to commit?
EDIT: I’m trying to take our current work flow, which is editing the LIVE version of a site using Frontpage Extensions or FTP. And move it to something BETTER. In this case a copy of the live site on a development server that I setup to mirror the live server, remove frontpage extensions access. Then the designers can still have the same effect of instant gratification but I will not have to worry they are editing the live files. Even using a shared user/pass in subversion is still version control. It may not be ideal and if the designers were actually programmers I would try to get them fully on board but that’s just not the case. This is the best I can do in this case and avoid a huge learning curve and work stoppage.
In my experience it will work just fine out of the box. At my company we have had this setup for a number of years and not experienced any problems (outside the obvious ones of having a shared working copy).
You should however look into having separate working copies and a trigger (hook) that updates the shared location on commits if you need a ‘live’ version of the site.