SVN Access

PLEASE read all of this document before using SVN.

You may also wish to view the Flash tutorial on using SVN.

The first step is to install an SVN client. For Windows users we recommend Tortoise SVN. Just download the latest version and run the installer. The following instructions assume you are using Tortoise, but the same general instructions apply to any SVN client.

Now create a new folder on your hard drive where you want to save the SVN files. Right click on this folder and select "SVN Checkout..."

To check out the Fabrik 1.0 code, enter "http://fabrik.unfuddle.com/svn/fabrik_fabrik104/1.0.x/trunk" as the "URL of repository", and press OK.

To check out the Fabrik 2.0 code, enter "http://fabrik.unfuddle.com/svn/fabrik_fabrik2/trunk/" as the "URL of repository", and press OK.

You will be prompted for a user name and password the first time you access SVN, use username "fabrik_anonymous" and password "anonymous" (don't include the quotes!).

All the current Fabrik files will now be downloaded into your new folder.  From now on, to download any new or changed files from SVN, simply right click on the folder and select "SVN Update".

The SVN folder contains a load of files that are only required for communicating with the SVN server. To obtain only the files that are used by Fabrik, you need to export a copy of the files out of the SVN folder. To do this right click on the SVN folder and select "Tortoise SVN->export..." Then from the pop up window that appears select the folder into which you want to export the Fabrik files and press "OK".

The exported SVN folder now contains a layout which mirrors that of a Joomla site.  Now simply use your favorite FTP client to upload ALL of the new files to your server, overwriting your old files with the ones contained in the exported SVN folder.