After eight years of using the much maligned Microsoft SourceSafe, I've been investigating the allegedly superior open-source "Subversion" alternative. I'd spent many hours wading through the user-unfriendly, *nix-based documentation on the Subversion site, and had got nowhere after downloading several vendor-specific flavours of this supposedly fantastic software.
Massive respect, then, to Chris McGlothen, who has posted this fantastic article on setting up Subversion on Windows 2003. Thanks to Chris's article, I've got a working Subversion server, nicely integrated with my desktop PC courtesy of the Tortoise SVN client. If only all user manuals could be so well written! The only caveat is step 6 - uninstalling the SVN service - I'm really not sure why he put that step in, as you need the service in order to make use of the software!
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