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TortoiseSVN setup
  icon1 Brian Zhang Larsen | icon2 Uncategorized | icon4 03 24th, 2008| icon33 Comments »

I recently installed TortoiseSVN on a new computer, and realized that there was some stuff I had forgotten. I had some problems while the SSH port number on Hostgator is 2222, and Tortoise’s default SSH client does not support non default ports, at least as I understand. To make it easier to setup next time, I just compiled a small step by step list.

  1. Create a svn repository somewhere on your server, if you haven’t already. The simple version is:
    svnadmin create svnrepos
  2. Install TortoiseSVN
  3. Download Putty
  4. In TortoiseSVN Network settings, choose Putty as SSH client.
  5. Make a saved session in Putty, that connects to your server, with the right port.
  6. Make a checkout through TortoiseSVN with the following repository url:
    svn+ssh://<USERNAME>@<PUTTY_SAVED_SESSION_NAME>/home/path/

Enjoy.