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Following my post on how would you back up with EE, at: http://ellislab.com/forums/viewthread/93011/

Has anyone tried using SVN to edit on local machine and then commit changes on the host server?

Just curious.

Hi kriz,

That’s how we work on every project. You can either update SVN on the host server manually, or use a post commit hook to automatically update the files. Works great, especially with a team.

Hi Ryan,

We have cpanel, subversion and trac installed on our host server.

We are using Aptana (an IDE built on top of eclipse) which also has the subclipse plugin isntalled.

Would it be too much to ask how you were able to setup the svn server and how you were able to create a repository to connect to?

I am using Coda and this now has Subversion support. I’d love to know how to do this too.

I use SVN for all of my projects, however I do not run my own SVN server so could not advise on that front. The SVN host I favour is Springloops.com as, amongst other nice features, it integrates with Basecamp. It will also publish files via FTP on commit/manually, if you like to deploy changes en masse.

Coda’s new SVN support is handy for quick commits but it is fairly limited. I find Versions is a pretty good companion.

The web host we are with, provides an SVN support. However, the main SVN repository cannot be in public_html. This means that the SVN server would have to be from a remote server (somewhere else). This said, we could still do an SVN checkout through SSH and into the public_html.

i.e. SSH svn checkout /url/to/public_html

For those of you using SVN in your workflow, are you using this to control revision of your templates or your weblog posts?  Are you having to set all your templates as files so you can open these on you local machine and avoid having to go through the control panel?

Analog, yea I currently save the templates as files. Also, so I can open these up on my IDE / editor