How to connect a remote SVN repo to altium designer? - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / general

author: m4l490n
author_rank: Contributor
timestamp: October 20, 2015, 12:50:30 am
content: Hello everybody.I have a repository hosted in assembla. I need to be able to access this repository from altium in order to version control a design I have and share it with a friend that is helping me in the design. Every time I want to configure AD13 to connect to a repository it does not let me to add the "/" character to the remote repo URL. I don't know how am I supposed to configure AD13 to be able to work this way.Any suggestions?

author: free_electron
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: October 20, 2015, 01:30:59 am
content: Is that an svn server ? otherwise no-go

author: free_electron
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: October 20, 2015, 01:37:28 am
content: Install tortoisesvn on your computer. Create a local Repository.Checkout the files from Assembla into your local repository.Once you have the local files open them in Altium. Altium will detect that the files belong to an SVN and will automatically connect.you can now perform checkin checkout directly from inside altium

author: m4l490n
author_rank: Contributor
timestamp: October 23, 2015, 01:31:02 am
content: Quote from: free_electron on October 20, 2015, 01:37:28 amThanks for helping, but, it didn't workDo you know how to configure Altium Designer to work with remote repositories?Regards.

author: Bassman59
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: October 24, 2015, 04:15:21 am
content: Quote from: m4l490n on October 23, 2015, 01:31:02 amWhy not just use TortoiseSVN for the Subversion stuff and do only the board design in Altium?

author: Gribo
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: October 24, 2015, 07:05:59 pm
content: When Altium designer is connected to the SVN repo, it shows the status of each file under version control (Green = OK, Red = different from the one in the repository).To connect to a remote SVN server, you need to input the server's URL and connection method (HTTP, HTTPS, SVN, file or FTP). Altium's client is old and is not supported in the current version of the SVN server, so you need to use a newer client, ToroiseSVN is an excellent choice and can be specified in the Data management/Version control option tab in Altium designer's preferences.

author: free_electron
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: October 24, 2015, 09:43:32 pm
content: If you install tortoisesvn altium will interact through that with the svn server. It works perfectly fine.

author: ondo
author_rank: Contributor
timestamp: September 02, 2016, 01:04:09 pm
content: Since it took me a while to solve figure this out, and somebody else might be in the same situation:- You'll need to install svn (easiest way is by installing tortoiseSVN, and selecting cmd line tools).- Then go to version control and make sure altium is using your svn.exe, and not the inbuild one (select external and fill the path).The configuration you'll need:- Name: Whatever you like- Default chekout path: Location in your PC to store files- Method: https- Server: subversion.assembla.com- Repository subfolder: /svn/yourRepositoryNameFill username and password too if needed.

author: aklimi
author_rank: Newbie
timestamp: May 08, 2018, 05:20:47 am
content: I wrote a tutorial on how to set things up for Altium with Assemblahttps://improvengineering.wordpress.com/2018/04/27/cloud-repository-svn-for-altium-designer-using-assembla/