SVN and Me
A long long time ago in a galaxy that we’re currently in, a friend named Brandon started telling me about SVN. He went on with a short explaination of what it is and what it’s for. I never really thought about it until recently when I’ve decided to take on an e-commerce project at work. The project was to take an existing domain and turn it into a full fledged e-commerce store using Magento. After installing Magento and playing around, editing a TON of files and getting lost in the mix I started to wonder if there was a better way of managing this site.
Then I remembered SVN. SVN is an open source version control system that’s quickly taking the place of CVS. Some of the features include keeping versions of different files (kind of like Time Machine), user locks if more than one person is editing a file, comparing different versions and of vourse keeping track of changes. I spent almost a week, maybe longer, trying to find all the information I can about it. How to set it up, how it works, all the basic concepts and I even read (Okay skimmed through) the SVN book. Instantly I thought “Yeah okay. I can set this up.” Boy was I wrong. Continue reading
