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<blockquote data-quote="joz" data-source="post: 352448" data-attributes="member: 70244">I've never used it, but I'm willing to learn I can see how it would help. As long as the files all end up in one release. (Would there be separate svn's for the TV stuff?) I'd be happy to do some of the documentation too if you like. It is one of my pet peeves about MP!I'm not really a pro in it myself yet, used it now and then. Just trying google code out a bit atm and it's really handy I think. Just added a bunch of issues to the tracker. Took me a couple of tries but now I understand it.How to use SVN properly and using all it's functionality is not that easy. There is a tree like concept behind SVN. You have one trunk of the tree where all code sits in that gets out with releases. You also have branches of the tree. This is used when you're not sure if what you're doing will really work in all aspects. But you still need to save this work somewhere, so you do that in a separate branch (each branch for a &quot;side project&quot; as you might call it, that you don't know yet will work good)It's also good for documentation. It has some kind of wiki based pages behind it.However there's no place to chat I believe. We could abuse the wiki for that offcourse but might not be real handy.p.s.I use TortoiseSVN to checkout changes and upload the changes I made. Checkingout I'm not really doing atm ofcourse since Im the only person uploading so far.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="joz, post: 352448, member: 70244"] [B]I've never used it, but I'm willing to learn I can see how it would help. As long as the files all end up in one release. (Would there be separate svn's for the TV stuff?) I'd be happy to do some of the documentation too if you like. It is one of my pet peeves about MP![/B] I'm not really a pro in it myself yet, used it now and then. Just trying google code out a bit atm and it's really handy I think. Just added a bunch of issues to the tracker. Took me a couple of tries but now I understand it. How to use SVN properly and using all it's functionality is not that easy. There is a tree like concept behind SVN. You have one trunk of the tree where all code sits in that gets out with releases. You also have branches of the tree. This is used when you're not sure if what you're doing will really work in all aspects. But you still need to save this work somewhere, so you do that in a separate branch (each branch for a "side project" as you might call it, that you don't know yet will work good) It's also good for documentation. It has some kind of wiki based pages behind it. However there's no place to chat I believe. We could abuse the wiki for that offcourse but might not be real handy. p.s. I use TortoiseSVN to checkout changes and upload the changes I made. Checkingout I'm not really doing atm ofcourse since Im the only person uploading so far. [/QUOTE]

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