Here's the steps I used. I'm not saying it's the best way to implement SVN, but it sure does work! Thanks to Bobby for his help!
How to Use Subversion for Version Control, Using Tortoise SVN My System: Windows Vista, CFMX7 using the built-in CF web server. Download Subversion here: http://subversion.tigris.org/ Download the Tortoise SVN GUI here: http://tortoisesvn.tigris.org/ Install both applications. * Before proceeding, Subversion and Tortoise SVN should be fully installed and functional on your machine. * These instructions work when you have an existing website project. If you're creating a *new* website project, go ahead and copy its directory structure to its prospective repository folder. Steps ----- 1. Copy the entire site root folder and contents somewhere else on your hard drive. This should look like: CFusionMX7/wwwroot/yourwebsite, where "yourwebsite" is the site root. 2. Go to your original site root folder and delete all its contents 3. Create an empty directory somewhere on your hard drive. This directory will house your repository. * This step may be better understood by thinking of it as creating a repository for each site project. 4. Right click on the empty directory you created in step 3. Choose "Create repository". Tortoise SVN will now create the site repository in this directory. 5. In windows explorer, browse to the folder where you copied the existing website project. (This should contain all contents of your original project). Right click > Tortoise SVN > Import. * You instinctively think you need to export, but you don't. You're actually IMPORTing the site into SVN. Then choose the location of the repository you created in step 3. Click OK. 6. Browse to your original website project folder. This should be empty. Right click > SVN Checkout. Subversion will automatically create a working copy back in your original site root folder. You can now edit and save documents just like you've done before. Except now the changes are logged. *THE MOST IMPORTANT STEP 7. COMMIT! Now, whenever you make changes to your website project, you'll notice a little red icon on the folder when viewing it in Windows Explorer. This says hey, changes have been made to your website, and they don't match with what's in your repository. Right click > SVN commit A fancy little window pops up showing you the changes that were made. Check off the boxes of items you'd like to commit. You can even enter some messages in the window above. Also, right click inside that top window and choose "paste filename list". When complete, SVN has saved the current version of your website. Remember to commit EVERY time you make changes to your website. If you don't, using SVN is about useless. Notes ----- Step 1 isn't necessary. I chose to copy my site root folder to help avoid screwing up. You can directly import your website contents to its respective repository, from its original site root folder. Then delete all the contents in your original site root folder. Once this is complete, you're ready to checkout the repository contents back to your website root. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| ColdFusion MX7 and Flex 2 Build sales & marketing dashboard RIAâs for your business. Upgrade now http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2?sdid=RVJT Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:277648 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
