Free Hosted Subversion Repositories
Have you ever read an article and sat there literally saying to yourself “Why didn’t I think of that”? Well, in this month’s issue of .net magazine, an excellent article on remote subversion hosting by Ryan Taylor of “Havoc Inspired” had me doing just that!
Quite simply, by using Dropbox, subversion (SVN) and a bit of patience you can have your own remotely hosted and shared subversion repositories free of charge, practically removing the need for remotely hosted solutions such as Beanstalk.
I recommend that you grab an issue of .net and check out the article in full, but in brief Ryan details that by using Dropbox and by storing your subversion repositories in your dropbox that you can effectively host your own shared access subversion repositories. The article goes into much more detail than my simple one line summary, and also details a SVN workflow using Panic’s Coda. Definitely check it out.
I must add that although this has replaced my personal Beanstalk account, we still use Beanstalk as our remote SVN repository hosting service as it’s Basecamp integration, deployment tools, “worry free reliability” and other features are well worth the money.
Let me know if any of you have other SVN tips that you’d like to share.
