In the last article we installed and configured the Subversion server using Visual SVN.

Today I am going to show you how to interact with the server from the client side.

What you will need to download the Tortoise SVN client application.

Download and install and after a restart (bummer) we are ready to start working!

The Tortoise SVN adds its functionality in the Windows Explorer Context Menu.

I bet many of you are working on your own software projects and would love to have a version control at their disposal. This is useful for many reasons. If you are working with one or more friends on a joint project, if you have a desktop and a laptop and you want to work from both computers while keeping the files synchronized, or if you just want to be more organized and keep versions and backups of your work. You can also use Visual SVN to sync folders or documents between several computers.

This article will have 2 sections One will discuss the SVN Server installation and configuration and the second part will be about how to use the SVN client.

First you have to download the Visual SVN Server Installation

Installing the Visual SVN Server

Double click on the Visual SVN executable to begin the installation. After a few next next next clicks you will get this screen: