Subversion

[suityou01]

I got a small coding project and need to get some version control in place. SVN seemed to be the tool of choice, except having set svnserve up to run on my Ubuntu server, whenever I try and update the repository with binary files from my XP client using the latest TortoiseSVN I get a "malformed file" error.

Plenty of people asking for a fix online (googled it plenty) but no answers I can find. Anyone know?

(Is SVN still tulip after all these years? I would have thought it would be more stable / more supported)

Am I making the wrong choice with SVN?

[xchaotic]

Nothing wrong with SVN really, especially if you're the only person doing commits.
But I recommend mercurial to everyone, especially handy when working offline.
It has an equivalent python script launched via "hg serve" (or hg serve -d to run as a daemon) and then you just issue hg push from your client to the server.

If it's just one machine no server necessary, then, just hg init to create a repo and then hg addremove and hg commit -m 'description'

[suityou01]

Nothing wrong with SVN really, especially if you're the only person doing commits.
But I recommend mercurial to everyone, especially handy when working offline.
It has an equivalent python script launched via "hg serve" (or hg serve -d to run as a daemon) and then you just issue hg push from your client to the server.

If it's just one machine no server necessary, then, just hg init to create a repo and then hg addremove and hg commit -m 'description'

nice

[Jaws]

Have you tried using the svn commands from your command line to determine if the problem is with TortoiseSVN or Subversion itself?

[suityou01]

Have you tried using the svn commands from your command line to determine if the problem is with TortoiseSVN or Subversion itself?

I have not. I have however tried two seperate clients apps, being tortoise and smartsvn. Both give the same error, and it is only with binary files.

[lilelvis2000]

I've hooked it up using Apache. Works brill really. I've never tried svnserve so can't help there. But have you checked the access rights to the folder where the subversion repository is? Or its a problem with inetd, some type of conflict.

[doodab]

Subversion FAQ

Looks like it might be performing keyword substitution or eol conversion, unless you have turned those off.

[suityou01]

Subversion FAQ

Looks like it might be performing keyword substitution or eol conversion, unless you have turned those off.

which is better, on or off?

[doodab]

I would think off, as you don't want to substitute anything in your binary files. I have no idea how to set these though this might help:

Properties

[suityou01]

I would think off, as you don't want to substitute anything in your binary files. I have no idea how to set these though this might help:

Properties

I think keywords is off by default. You seem to have to add keywords.