Eclipse Helios Subversion Installation
The following steps were taken from the Polarion website.
Starting from version 0.7.8.I20090808-1900 you can install just Subversive SVN Team Provider (without installing SVN Connectors from another update site) and the new Connector Discovery feature helps you find and install right versions of SVN Connectors. However, you can optionally use the update sites below to get them.
Subversive Update Site is a part of Helios Update Site. To install:
- On main menu, choose Help > Install New Software. The available Software dialog appears.
- In the Work with list, select Helios – http://download.eclipse.org/releases/helios. A list of software packages appears.
- Expand the Collaboration node.
- Check box for Subversive Team Provider (incubation)
- Check other options in the dialog as desired and click the Next button. The Install Details screen appears in the dialog.
- Click the Next button, accept the license and click Finish. Subversive will dowload and install.
- It is recommended to accept the option to restart Eclipse.
- Subversive SVN Connectors [required]
Update
After using Subversive for some weeks now, I finally removed it from my eclipse installation. It might have been my own fault or the PDT php plugin failed for some reason, but merging .php files almost never worked automatically as with Subclipse and my Java files. I definitely don’t wont to merge files manually, when in fact they aren’t conflicting in any serious way, i.e. when developer1 adds some code at the top and developer2 adds something at the bottom. That really shouldn’t be a problem. Also I didn’t like the menu structure of the Subversive plugin, as there seemed to be some unnecessary built-in extra clicks. So my personal recommendation is to stay with the Subclipse SVN plugin. Remember that you also have to install a SVN client such as JavaHL (which is said to be faster than SVNkit). You can get both plugins from their respective eclipse update site: http://subclipse.tigris.org/update_1.6.x.