Today we have increased the disk space limit for our Free accounts from 10mb to 50mb.
Again this is part of our ongoing improvement program but we also found that the 10mb restriction didn’t really allow you to run a project efficiently.
As always we don’t count backups or database data in this restriction its purely Subversion data, so you should have plenty to keep you going.
As part of our ongoing commitment keep improving Code Spaces we have implemented a Real Time Backup system.
No More Daily Backups!
Basically we have replaced the Daily Backup system with a new real time backup that creates a copy of your repository each time you do a Subversion Commit.
You can see or download your subversion backups form the Admin section of Code Spaces.
Code Spaces now allows Subversion Commits to be linked to Work Items, enabling you to create a relationship between a commit and a task, bug, etc…
From the Work Items screen simply open a Work Item and notice the “Linked Subversion Commits” tab:
From here you can click on the Add link to add any number of Commits to the Work Item.
This is a great way of tracking what got fixed, when and why, especially when reviewing a change log or road map from the Project Dashboard.
Please let us know what you think of this or any other Code Spaces features via our Contact Us page.
If you can’t tear yourself away from Visual Studio to do your Subversion Commits you might like this Visual Studio Plugin:
AnkhSVN: A Subversion addin for Microsoft Visual Studio .NET
From the Prject Website:
“AnkhSVN is a Visual Studio .NET addin for the Subversion version control system. It allows you to perform the most common version control operations directly from inside the VS.NET IDE. Not all the functionality provided by SVN is (yet) supported, but the majority of operations that support the daily workflow are implemented.”
AnkhSVN Unlike the MSSCCI plugins that most source control systems use to integrate with Visual Studio is unintrusive, easy to use and doesn’t leave you feeling like your playing russian roulette with your source code (I’m talking about you Visual Source Safe!).
The icons used to display statuses in the solution explorer may seem a little odd at first but all the SVN commands you need are only a context menu away.
The best thing about this method of integration with Visual Studio is that you don’t need to bind the proj file with your repository like you do with VSS, TFS, etc… AmkhSVN simply picks up that your code is in a Subversion Working folder and uses the Subversion sub system to do the push ups – Nice!
If like us you have dozens of repositories in your Code Spaces account you can use this simple tip to get quick access to all your repositories.
Normally you would use a URL similar to this to access a specific repository:
http(s)://svn.codespaces.com/[my_account]/[my_repository]However, if you simply go up one level to:
http(s)://svn.codespaces.com/[my_account]/Paste this into your browsers address bar, you will see a list of all your repositories and even better, they are browsable (provided you have permission to them).
By now you will most likely be aware that Subversion knocks the spots off of it’s competitors, however you may not be aware of the wealth of clients that work with Subversion.
TortoiseSVN is by far the most popular Subversion Client, so much so that the TortoiseSVN project on SourceForge boasts 5,113,930 downloads (wow).
Adam Pash has done a great write up over at lifehacker.com which I strongly recommend you read if you want a quick start guide to using TortoiseSVN.
Windows Only!!!
If like me you don’t do the majority of your work on Windows you may look at TortoiseSVN with envy, however all is not lost OSX users can use the SCCPlugin which although incomplete will give you nice icons and easy access to commit, update, etc…
Linux users get the short straw when it comes to Graphical Clients that integrate into the Shell however I think the general consensus is that most Linux users are usually knee deep in a terminal window anyway and are generally more comfortable with the command line interface, however TortoiseSVN for gnome and/or KDE would be very nice .
We will be refreshing Code Spaces today with several bug fixes and new features.
I thought i would take this opportunity to give you all a sneak at the new dashboard with Project Milestone integration.
Notice that the timeline now shows icons for specific project events like subversion commit, Work Item status changes and Project Milestones.
The recent subversion commits module allows for easy navigation to the repository browser or the revision viewer.
Click on the thumbnail for a bigger version.
Keep an eye on Code Spaces today for your very own Code Spaces Dashboard 
We installed the open ssl build of apache on our SVN cluster today and deployed the SSL cert, which means we now offer subversion over SSL to all users as standard.
To make use of the SSL layer simply use https instead of the http protocol that you have been using to date for your subversion server (e.g. https://svn.codespaces.com/[your_domain]/[your_repository])
We were originally only going to offer SSL to higher end customers but thankfully we came to our senses and realized that everybody needs SSL for transferring code…
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We had an issue yesterday with the Subversion repositories not being created.
This has now been resolved and all subversion repositories created during this period are now active.
Floyd
