Integrating SVN into Eclipse

Ronald Bradford
April 1, 2006

Being a CVS Version Control Person, I’ve had to learn Subversion as part of Open Source Contribution. Both MySQL and JMeter use SVN.

Steps for integration of SVN into Eclipse IDE. Refer to Subclipse for more information.

Installation of JMeter via SVN

Start Eclipse
Help | Software Updates | Find and Install
Search For New Features To Install [Next]
[New Remote Site]
URL: http://subclipse.tigris.org/update_1.0.x
[Finish]
Tick Subclipse [Next]
I accept Terms and Condtions [Next]
Finish

Operation

Restart Eclipse
Window | Open Perspective | Other | SVN Repository Exploring
Right Click New | Repository Location
URL http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/jakarta/jmeter/trunk/ [Finish]
Right Click on Node, Checkout
Check out as project in Workspace [Finish]

Tagged with: General Java Open Source

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