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Book Review: Managing Software Development with Trac and Subversion

I just finished an interesting book, "Managing Software Development with Trac and Subversion".  Trac, a ticket management system, and Subversion, a source control management system, are open source software that are very popular in the community.  I've used each extensively and really enjoy what each of the solutions bring to the table over their competition.

The author does an excellent job explaining everything you need for getting an environment set up.  By the end of this book you'll understand the setup, configuration, and usage of each of these tools, in addition to Apache.

I would highly recommend this book to anyone looking for a free solution to project management and source code management.  It's a rather quick read at 120 pages but enjoyable and useful.

Posted: Feb 05 2008, 09:08 AM by CompiledMonkey | with 2 comment(s)
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rrobbins said:

I'm trying to learn how to use SubVersion. Does this book cover how to work with it to manage a Visual Studio project? I have SubVersion installed but now I need to figure out the workflow.

# February 5, 2008 10:26 AM

CompiledMonkey said:

For detailed information on how to use Subversion, I would reference the online Subversion book (http://svnbook.red-bean.com/).  It's a free resource that covers every detail of Subversion, from usage to administration.

As for working with Subversion in Visual Studio, you'll probably want to use a plug-in such as VisualSVN (http://visualsvn.com/).  It's not free but worth the cost easily.  I've used it for quite some time now and love it.

To use VisualSVN, you'll need TortoiseSVN (http://tortoisesvn.net/), which is a Windows Explorer extension.  It gives you Subversion functionality directly from inside of WIndows Explorer.  Also a great tool to use Subversion on Windows.

# February 5, 2008 10:41 AM
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