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Author Message Prev Topic | Next Topic  Russ Admin Group Snake Joined: 23 January 2005 United Kingdom Posts: 633 Gender: Male Posted: 29 June 2008 at 5:22pm | IP Logged A while back I mentioned setting up source control for members. Well I have decided not to reinvent the wheel, but instead have partnered with CVS DUDE, a well known provider of reliable subversion hosting. Register today to get your FREE 2MB Subversion or CVS hosting account which you can then use to store and manage your CFML code. If you find that that FREE plan  is not enough, then you can always upgrade to one of the paid plans. You can use your CVS DUDE account directly from within CFEclipse using subclipse or from within windows using tortoise SVN. There are even subversion add-ons for Adobe Dreamweaver too. FEATURES   Subversion   Trac   Bugzilla   Security   10 min backups Now you may be wondering what is source control and hwy would I want it ? Well you can find the full technical description HERE, but I will give you the quick simple version. Source control is basically a rollback backup/restore system for your code and files. You know how windows XP has its system restore point, well source control is the same thing. If you accidentally lose, delete, overwrite or change a file in any way then you can easily rollback to any one one of your previous versions (revisions). Once you have committed all your files into the SVN repository, you can then check them out to any remote location, so it also acts as a central storage and backup location for your files. Your local PC will contain what is called your "working copy" which will be the files that your currently working on, when you are happy with the changes you will then commit them back to the repository. There are lots of other neat features you get too, such as the ability to merge multiple revisions together, so lets say both you and I were working on the same file, I committed it first, then you committed it, and SVN would tell you there is a conflict, allowing you to merge the results of both our changes. For more details you should also check out the subversion site. __________________ Russ Michaels CFDeveloper Administrator my blog: <a href="http://russ.michaels.me.uk/">russ.michaels.me.uk< ;/a> Back to Top    Paulk Newbie Joined: 31 December 2008 United States Posts: 19 Gender: Male Posted: 10 August 2009 at 4:22pm | IP Logged We have been using CVS Dude for several months while they occasionally have issues nothing that isn't a show stopper or resolved withing a day or so.  For personal projects I have been using Project Locker they have free accounts and support SSL. http://www.projectlocker.com/ Back to Top

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