Easier way for EA to use subversion?

[Craig L.]

Hi all,

Does anyone know of a tool, or easier way to connect EA to an existing subversion server?    I'm having a tough time connecting the two.

The document I'm using is from 2005 - perhaps there is something updated since then?

Craig

[Paul Lotz]

Can you clarify, please?  Easier than... what exactly?

EA connects to Subversion via the Collabnet Subversion client.  In my experience this has been quite easy to get working with an existing Subversion server.  What specific issues are you encountering?

[Craig L.]

I think you've given me a necessary piece of the puzzle.  I wasn't using CollabNet, but will give that a try now.    Is there a guide anywhere for it?

[Paul Lotz]

Hmm...  I thought this was in the document, but I see it's not.

I guess I ended up with Collabnet by going to the Subversion site and seeing that this was a Windows client.  Anyway, lots of people on this forum use it.  As I recall you pretty much have to install it and then point to it from EA when you configure EA version control (Project...Version Control...Version Control Settings--WorkstationSettings...Subversion Exe Path).  That's pretty much it.

I set up our top-level directory with TortoiseSVN before connecting EA to it, by the way.  (We only had to do this once!)  This allows us to see the TortoiseSVN overlays.  (We don't check anything in or out with TortoiseSVN lest we conflict with EA's internal version control.)

Paul