[Opensubtitleed-devel] Staying up-to-date with SVN

[Lefteris A. <le...@gm...>]

Hello everyone aboard the Open Subtitle Editor team!

In this e-mail I'd like to inform you about SVN. What SVN is really is
source control, which means that source can be uploaded and downloaded from
there, and any uploaded source is saved separately depending on the files it
added, modified and/or removed. In a few words, a complete source history of
the project.

The SVN repository is the most frequently updated source of the project's
source, because any changes any developer makes to the code can be uploaded
with a few clicks, instead of having to select which files you want to
include, then zip them, then go through Sourceforge's file release system.

The current source can be found here:
http://code.google.com/p/opensubtitleeditor/source/browse/trunk
The SVN revision history can be found here:
http://code.google.com/p/opensubtitleeditor/source/list

To be able to update your local code with that on the SVN repository as well
as commit your changes to the online code with a few clicks, you can use
TortoiseSVN (http://tortoisesvn.tigris.org/) which implements itself in
Windows Explorer's right-click menu. Then, by right-clicking anywhere, you
can set-up a folder on your hard-disk to be the checkout folder of the SVN
repository. There, with "Update" you can always have the latest code on your
hard-disk, while with Commit you can upload your changes to the SVN.

If you can't wait for the next nightly and want to always be able to have
the most debugged code, it's worth the trouble.

For any questions, e-mail me at le...@gm...

Aslanoglou Eleftherios

Student of Computers Engineering and Informatics
University of Patras