Successful web design is as much about process as design sometimes, it seems.

My question is: how to use svn (say, torotoiseSVN) for personal project? I installed torotiseSVN, right clicked on a directory and made it my repository directory. But I still don’t get what I need to do, to use the power of svn.

Do I just write code file in eclipse or text editor, and save it in that directory?

What are the steps I need to do, and in which order, and how often?

Answer to this question might be helpful to not only me, but to newbie-developers who have never used SVN or source-control, but want to use it.

I will be using my laptop as my sole development machine, and I’d have svn repository on my laptop too – not a remote server. I’d like to upload updates to site to a webserver every day. To start with, I am going to be the only developer. But a friend might join me in future.

RewriteRule ^(.*/)?\.svn/ – [F,L]
ErrorDocument 403 “Access Forbidden”

And i found it here:
http://codesnippets.[...]ts/show/1365

http://httpd.apache.[...]ml#directory

I sometimes run into that problem, and if you’re on a system that allows symbolic links (about any unix will do) you can set it up like this:

create two files:

.htaccess-dev
.htaccess-live

and put them both in your versioning system

now make a symbolic link (do _not_ put this in your versioning system)

.htaccess -> .htaccess-dev

on the dev server, and another to the live version on the live server.

worksforme

Another option: create a branch for de dev version and put a different .htaccess there — this might be a bit more complex to understand though, and you wont have easy access to the live version on dev, and the other way around.

nice write-ups. i’ve been doing much the same process as of late.

one tip: use the “svn export” command to push a ‘clean’ copy of your work live–it leaves out all the .svn files and folders.