How To: Access Subversion Repository in Eclipse

Subversion is an open source revision control system which aims to be a replacement for CVS.

Many of the open source projects are on Subversion repository including Apache projects.

Eclipse by default comes with a CVS client and if you need to Subversion client, this is what you need to do

Subclipse is an Eclipse Team Provider plug-in providing support for Subversion within the Eclipse IDE.

You can install the plugin for Eclipse 3.2/3.3 using the following update site

http://subclipse.tigris.org/update_1.4.x

You need to input the above URL in

Help -> Software Updates -> Find and Install

If you want to install the plugin manually, the zipped versions of Subclipse are also available.

After the plugin is installed you should see a new perspective: SVN Repository Exploring as shown below

You can now add a new SVN repository and view the same in the Repositories view.

You can execute multiple operations on the controlled element such as listing the history, comparing the element with older versions etc.

If you are new to Subversion (like me ), the below post should be of some help !

http://www.tigris.org/scdocs/Learning