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Category Archives: Source Control

Freepository Adds RadRails Support

02-Mar-07

We’re pleased to add another IDE to the list of officially supported direct clients
RadRails - http://www.radrails.org
Radrails is built on the Eclipse tool foundation, and as such, provides the same connectivity as Eclipse itself. Your Freepository Silver Account SVN repository may be accessed in Radrails by simply adding a new SVN Repository in the SVN Repository [...]

SVN PROPFIND Errors

02-Mar-07

If you’re reading this, you probably know that Freepository began offering integrated SVN & Trac accounts on January 1st of this year. We have many, many members, and as a result, the service gets put through numerous use cases every day. Most of these we’ve considered, modeled and designed to or around. Occasionally we encounter [...]

Freepository UI Redesign Project

01-Mar-07

The next major redesign of the Freepository is in the planning stage now. The focus of this release, tentatively scheduled for early May 2007, is ripping out as much of the legacy CGI as possible and replacing it with asynchronous calls to either the database or the repository server.
Ajax? Yeah. But please [...]

Subversion at Freepository

17-Feb-07

In January, I began offering a new account type at Freepository - Silver Edition. Silver provides on-demand trac views of your subversion-managed freepository. For a limited time, Freepository Silver Edition, which provides hosted SVN and Trac, is available free of charge.

Converting a CVS repository to SVN

31-Jan-07

In the nearly twenty years that CVS has been in use, there have been literally hundreds of thousands, (perhaps even millions) of CVS repositories created around the globe. Some of those have already converted to Subversion (SVN), while others are candidates for conversion. This posting explores how best to approach such a conversion.