GitHub now has SVN support

April 16th, 2010 by Afraithe

When we switched from Subversion to GitHub, the only negative feedback we got was that it is a lot harder to user SVN External in order to import the TinyMCE SVN tree into your own repository.

Well on the 1st of April, GitHub announced SVN support, most ppl thought it was an April fools joke, but it does actually work.

It is read-only of course.

If you want to check out TinyMCE using SVN you use this url.

svn checkout http://svn.github.com/tinymce/tinymce.git

Check out their blog post on GitHub for more info.

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5 Responses

1. Richard Davies Says:
   

   Oooh yaaaa! This is awesome! This news has made my day–I’m going to try it out later today.

   April 16th, 2010 at 21:28
2. Richard Davies Says:
   

   FYI: It appears that currently you can only checkout the HEAD revision. In addition, you cannot browse the repo with TortoiseSVN.

   This is a good first step, but would be totally awesome if GitHub continues to add support for missing features.

   April 16th, 2010 at 22:38
3. Spocke Says:
   

   Yes, they have a lot of work left but it’s very promising.

   April 17th, 2010 at 10:34
4. James Says:
   

   I’m also sad about the fact that you can only pull from HEAD, this makes the integration with Drupal broken because it requires a version number which is not present when checking out from git HEAD.

   Interesting side note, searching on github for ‘tinymce’ or ‘TinyMCE’ or ‘Tinymce’ doesn’t turn up anything useful at all. ‘tiny_mce’ turns up someones forked work (strangely not even forked from the official master branch).

   July 9th, 2010 at 05:52
5. James Says:
   

   Oops, what i mentioned as forked work (tiny_mce), is actually a Ruby on Rails plugin for tinymce.

   July 9th, 2010 at 05:54