Hi Frans, read your blog regarding subversion and had a question. Can it be used in an internet scenario? For example, I have a team that is remote to where I am, and we were looking at vault because our team can access it from anywhere. Does subversion have this capability?

Thanks

Subversion has its own service which listens to a port. You can use that port to access subversion via the internet (lan usage is the same, you then also use the service). It also has an Apache module, you can use to checkin/out files. If your box runs IIS, I think Vault will be a better choice, however it will cost you money

(looking at Vault I can only draw the conclusion that they've looked closely at subversion)

We've just switched from CVS to Subversion for our .NET development. We are also planning to migrate our document repository from cvs to subversion as well. Its so much nicer using the Windows Explorer extension Tortoise than TkCVS which we are using now (or WinCVS for that matter).

I know you can get Windows Explorer support for CVS, but the features of subversion (like renaming files and folders and moving files and folders between directories and browsing the repository without having to suck the whole thing down) along with the Tortoise UI make it a compelling replacement.

What are you using for Visual Studio integration?

A while ago we found a Russian company called PushOK (www.pushok.com) who provided an SCC plugin for Visual Studio for CVS. This plugin was far superior to any other plugin that we had found and only cost US$19. Luckily, these guys have recently released a beta version of their plugin for SVN. We've started trialling that for our source control and so far its looking good.

I'm not using a VS.NET plugin. After a day of development I simply commit the folder I worked in (I organized the projects into folders on disk so I can for example commit the 'Designer' folder and commit 4 vs.net projects ). Works great I'll never go back to vss, that's for sure