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Installing TortoiseSVN to Windows Vista

In a previous article, I installed Subversion and TortoiseSVN to a Windows XP Home Edition machine. Later, I upgraded the installation.

Just recently I covered installing Subversion 1.4.6 to Windows Vista. This time I'll be installing TortoiseSVN on that same machine.

The setup

The system I'm using is a HP Pavilion a6360t, with 4GB install RAM, 2.20 GHz, with two cores, running Windows Vista Ultimate SP1, 32-bit.

Downloading TortoiseSVN

Since TortoiseSVN is for Windows, it makes it even easier to find the version to download. Right on the home page we see a link for the download page, where we can get a copy of the most current version.

At the time of this writing that's version 1.4.8, built against version 1.4.6 of Subversion.

I'll be downloading the file TortoiseSVN-1.4.8.12137-win32-svn-1.4.6.msi.

Installing TortoiseSVN

Running the program, you'll work your way through a number of installation screens.

Install screens

TortoiseSVN Setup Screen 1 TortoiseSVN Setup Screen 2 TortoiseSVN Setup Screen 3 TortoiseSVN Setup Screen 4 TortoiseSVN Setup Screen 5 TortoiseSVN Setup Screen 6

Post-Installation

With TortoiseSVN installed, we can now interact with Subversion in a Windows-friendly way, instead of relying upon the command line.

In a later article, we'll actually use Subversion and TortoiseSVN to put a Web site under source control, as well as a Windows application (based upon the .NET Framework).

While I've covered Dreamweaver in the past, I'll be looking at using Subversion with Visual Studio, to see if it's indeed possible.

Comments

3/19/2009 1:04:54 AM #

mark

http://tortoisesvn.net/node/269 Known issues.

mark United States

3/19/2009 7:14:29 AM #

James Skemp

Thanks Mark; I didn't think to include that resource here.

One thing I have noticed, that's not listed there, is that the overlay icons don't display for me. Even a complete reinstall of TortoiseSVN (uninstall, reboot, install) doesn't resolve the issue.

They were working, they just went away when I upgraded at one point, many versions ago ...

James Skemp United States

1/28/2010 10:16:21 PM #

Kevin

I'm having trouble with TortoiseSVN-1.6.7.18415-win32-svn-1.6.9 running on Vista.

It installed, I rebooted, but the context menus are missing from explorer.

Kevin Canada

1/29/2010 7:25:20 AM #

James Skemp

Hi Kevin,

Doing a quick search, it seems verifying that the OS is 32-bit for that installer is the first check.

Here's a listing of unofficial registry keys to check for:

HKLM\Software\Classes\Directory\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers\TortoiseSVN
HKLM\Software\Classes\CLSID\{30351346-7B7D-4FCC-81B4-1E394CA267EB}
HKLM\Software\Classes\*\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers\TortoiseSVN
HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Shell
Extensions\Approved\{30351346-7B7D-4FCC-81B4-1E394CA267EB}

I personally still need to install this version to my development machine, and can certainly give that a try later today.

James Skemp United States

1/30/2010 8:18:30 AM #

James Skemp

Having gone through the install this morning Kevin, it seemed to work just fine.

Based on the official page, however, it seems some reports have come in on issues; they're suggest an uninstall, reboot, and re-install and reboot.

James Skemp United States

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