Technical Diary

• Download the latest stable Subversion binaries for Windows from here

• Unzip it to a directory of your choice.

• Add the bin directory under the subversion installation to your PATH

• Create a new subversion repository

c:\svnadmin create \path\to\svn_repository

• Modify configuration file svnserve.conf under the conf directory of the subversion repository you just created  to allow write permission to repository

• If needed, import existing projects into the newly created repository

• Use the SVN Service Wrapper for Windows to set up svnserve as a windows service. This way whenever you restart your machine, your local subversion server will be started

• Alternatively, start subversion server manually as:

c:\svnserve -r pathtosvn_repository -d

• Done. You now can access the new subversion repository within your LAN. The URL for your subversion repository is:

svn://localhost/path/to/svn_repository or

svn://lan_ip_address/path/to/svn_repository

Jon Galloway has a great post on Mouseless Computing, which contains tips, links on using shortcuts for Windows in general and other applications such as Visual Studio.Net, SQL Server Query Analyzer, etc. I have to dig more deep into it.