Question

I’m trying to set up a VCS for my Android projects in Eclipse. Right now I have the SVN and Subclipse plug-ins installed to Eclipse. I know how to connect to a remote SVN like a google code project url but I don’t want that, I want to set up a local SVN on my own computer. How do I do this?

Answer 1

You must create the local repository, and then tell subclipse where it is.

A svn repository is basically a folder, with a structure of files and folders. If you use a svn client like Tortoise SVN, you just need to

1. create a folder, give it a name and open it,
2. right click the folder and on the context menu go to TortoiseSVN->”Create repository here”.

You will now have your SVN repository created.

In eclipse, it’s the normal process to import the new svn, but when it asks for the svn URL, use the filepath to the local svn folder. In my case it’s

file:///C:\Users\Lee Scott Reis\Desktop\LocalSVN

If you want to host a public SVN, then you’ll need a svn server.

Hope this helped 🙂