Just thought I’d mention the IDGA (International Game Developers Association) Auckland Student Chapter information night tonight. The full announcement is here.

I left my CVS server behind after switching from Linux to Windows (to learn DirectX). I never like to be without source code version control for very long. Although I’m working solo on my game projects I sometimes break my code and it’s handy to be able to revert to a working version and see what exactly changed at 2am in the morning. Subversion 1.0 was released around the time I was thinking of installing CVS again so I thought I’d give it a go.

The Subversion project have taken CVS and redesigned out many of its flaws, like being able to rename files. I was also attracted to it because of it’s ability to operate over WebDAV using an Apache module. There is a nice Windows client called TortoiseSVN which integrates into Windows Explorer.

Getting Subversion up and running was reasonably straight forward. So far I’ve been happy with it although I haven’t done anything complicated with it so far. Unfortunately I haven’t been able to use my subversion server from school, probably because our proxy server doesn’t support the HTTP methods that Subversion requires.