Preparing a Subversion Environment Under Wine

1

Start Enterprise Architect.

You do not have to load a project at this point.

2

From the 'Start' ribbon, select 'Appearance > Preferences > Toolbars...

The 'Customize' dialog is opened.

Select the 'Tools' tab, then click on the icon.

A new, blank entry is opened on the 'Tools' tab of the 'Customize' dialog.

3

Define the new menu item entry:

• In the newly-opened 'Menu contents' field, type the name 'Wine Console'
• In the 'Command' field, type 'wineconsole'
• In the 'Arguments' field, type 'cmd'
• Leave the 'Initial directory' field blank

4

Click on the Close button.

The 'Customize' dialog closes.

5

Select the ribbon option: 'Settings > User Tools > Wine Console'.

A Wine console window opens.

6

Type 'C:' and press the Enter key.

The Wine console switches to the C: drive.

7

Issue the command to install your Subversion client. For example:

     C:\>/Installers/Subversion-client-1.9.5.win32.exe

To install from a .msi file, use Wine's msiexec utility. For example:

     C:\>msiexec /i  "Installers\Slik-Subversion-1.9.7-win32.msi"

Installation of the Subversion command line client begins.

8

Create a folder to serve as the working copy folder to be used by Enterprise Architect. For example:

     C:\>mkdir C:\VC_workspaces\SVN_workcopy

9

Issue the command to perform the initial checkout from the Subversion repository, specifying the repository folder, working copy folder, username and password. For example:

     C:\>svn checkout "https://myServer:8443/svn/repos_folder"

            "C:\VC_workspaces\SVN_workcopy "

            --username myUserName

            --password myPassword

(After you specify your Subversion username and password, they are correctly cached by Subversion and are available for use by Enterprise Architect.)

If the HTTPS protocol is specified when performing the initial Subversion check out, you are prompted to accept a security certificate; in this instance, press the P key to permanently accept the certificate.

The nominated local folder is configured as a Subversion working copy folder. Any files already existing in the repository folder are downloaded to the working copy folder as working copy files.

10

Type 'Exit' and press the Enter key.

The Wine console window closes.

You are now ready to load a project in Enterprise Architect and apply Version Control to it, using the normal Windows-based procedures.