Friday, December 27, 2019

Eclipse Subversive (SVN) plugin installation

A tutorial on how to install Subversive SVN plugin + connectors for those who still use SVN as a source repository for their projects or used to easily pull into your project the Google AAR libraries from GitHub.

  1. Use your exiting Eclipse installation or download and extract the latest version available.
    Eclipse IDE for Java Developers 2019-12
    https://www.eclipse.org/downloads/packages/

  2. Go to Help > Install New Software
    Click Add... button a add a new Subversive repository pointing to
    http://download.eclipse.org/technology/subversive/4.0/update-site/


    Select at least the Subversive SVN Team Provider entry, continue de installation with the Next button, accept the license and Finish the installation.


    Restart now when prompted, to apply the software updates.

  3. Once restararted, go to Windows > Preferences > Team > SVN and select the SVN Connector tab.


    SVN Connector dropdown is empty so let's click the Get Connectors... button to download a connector.

    You can choose between the SVN Kit pure Java connector (SVN 1.8 compatible) and Native JavaHL system binary connectors (SVN 1.8 and 1.9 compatible). I for one prefer the first one as it - read this thread if you want to better understand the differences. https://stackoverflow.com/a/7703748/308836


    Finish the installation following the software updates dialogs presented, accepting the license and choose to Install Anyway if presented wih a dialog telling you the software was not signed.


    Restart now when prompted, to apply the software updates.
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And that's it, you can now pull projects down from SVN using File > Import... > SVN > Projects from SVN




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