November 2010
Intermediate to advanced
150 pages
2h 55m
English
| 2 | Installing a Graphical Client on Windows |
TortoiseSVN is an excellent Subversion client for Windows that integrates directly into Windows Explorer. Once Tortoise is installed, you can right-click anywhere in a Windows Explorer window and get context-sensitive Subversion options. If you right-click in a directory that isn’t a Subversion working copy, Tortoise will offer to let you check it out from a repository. If you right-click a directory that is a working copy, Tortoise will offer to let you update or commit. If you right-click a file inside a working copy, Tortoise will offer to show history for the file, and so on.
Throughout the rest of the book, we’ll use a shorthand to denote choosing Tortoise menu options, rather than showing screenshots ...