Selecting a Repository

Proceed as follows to select a software version control repository for use with your ASCET data:

In the SCM menu, open the Source Control submenu and select Show Source Control Settings.
The Subversion Settings dialog box is displayed.

In this dialog box, click on the magnifying glass button to the right of the Repository URL field.

The Repository Browser is displayed.

Note
This step and the following step assume that TortoiseSVN is installed on your computer. If TortoiseSVN is not available on your local computer, ask your administrator for the URL mentioned in the following step.

Use this browser to select the URL of the repository you want to use with your ASCET data.
Be sure to use the URL of an existing SVN repository; ASCET-SCM will not create one for you. If you have another SVN tool like TortoiseSVN installed on your computer, you can copy the URL of a repository from there (which opens e.g. the TortoiseSVN Repo Browser).
Optionally, you can test the connection to this URL with the Test Connection button in the Subversion Settings dialog box.
Change the user name if you want to use a different name for authentication with the repository.
Optionally, when you place items under version control via Add and Commit, you can select or create repository folders for these items.

Note
For the sake of performance, please select the URL of a repository that does not contain a large amount of other data (e.g. use a subfolder for ASCET-SCM if necessary). Depending on the size of the repository, Update operations might take a long time. If TortoiseSVN is installed on the system, a button behind the Repository URL edit field is enabled which opens TortoiseSVN "Repo-Browse" with the currently selected URL. If you select another URL in the Repository Browser, it can be entered as the ASCET-SCM Repository URL via the standard copy & paste mechanism. To select a new repository and choose a different working copy path as described above, the current source control bindings have to be removed first.

Note

For the sake of performance, please select the URL of a repository that does not contain a large amount of other data (e.g. use a subfolder for ASCET-SCM if necessary). Depending on the size of the repository, Update operations might take a long time.

If TortoiseSVN is installed on the system, a button behind the Repository URL edit field is enabled which opens TortoiseSVN "Repo-Browse" with the currently selected URL. If you select another URL in the Repository Browser, it can be entered as the ASCET-SCM Repository URL via the standard copy & paste mechanism.

To select a new repository and choose a different working copy path as described above, the current source control bindings have to be removed first.