SubscribeUpdate October 2 2007: Someone posted a link to Gary’s Bit Patterns where there is a settings file you can just import instead of doing all these manual steps.
I also fixed the quotes in the commands so they shouldn’t cause trouble anymore.
Ever wanted to use TortoiseSVN from VisualStudio? Well, now you can! 1
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Introduction
I have created a toolbar with Update, Log, Check, Revert, and Commit 
. The commands work the same as if you right clicked the folder containing the solution. Follow the steps below to get your own tortoise toolbar.
Menu
Select Tools > External Tools… from the Visual Studio menu. Add a tool using the following info.
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| #1 | |
| Title | Tortoise &Update |
| Command | C:Program FilesTortoiseSVNbinTortoiseProc.exe |
| Arguments | /command:update /path:"$(SolutionDir)" /notempfile |
| #2 | |
| Title | Tortoise &Log |
| Command | C:Program FilesTortoiseSVNbinTortoiseProc.exe |
| Arguments | /command:log /path:"$(SolutionDir)" /notempfile |
| #3 | |
| Title | Tortoise Check for &Modifications |
| Command | C:Program FilesTortoiseSVNbinTortoiseProc.exe |
| Arguments | /command:repostatus /path:"$(SolutionDir)" /notempfile |
| #4 | |
| Title | Tortoise Re&vert |
| Command | C:Program FilesTortoiseSVNbinTortoiseProc.exe |
| Arguments | /command:revert /path:"$(SolutionDir)" /notempfile |
| #5 | |
| Title | Tortoise &Commit |
| Command | C:Program FilesTortoiseSVNbinTortoiseProc.exe |
| Arguments | /command:commit /path:"$(SolutionDir)" /notempfile |
- $(SolutionDir) is the path to the directory the solution is in
- /notempfile is required when running from the command line
- The ampersands make that letter a shortcut for use in the menu
You should have the commands in your tools menu. Try them out and make sure they all work.
Toolbar
Add the toolbar by right-clicking your toolbar and select customize. Make a new toolbar and call it Tortoise. Close the customize window and right-click again, this time adding the tortoise toolbar.
Now go back to customize, select the commands tab, and scroll down to the tools category. You should see a bunch of commands like External Command 1, External Command 2, etc. Drag those on to your new toolbar. This may require some trial and error.
You can rename the commands in the toolbar by selecting a button with the customize window open, then clicking the Modify Selection button, then Name:.
Icons
Now to add the icons. I haven’t found an easy way to do this yet. Here’s what I did:
Go to http://tortoisesvn.tigris.org/svn/tortoisesvn/trunk/src/Resources/ (user guest, blank password). Browse to the image you want then right click the image and select Copy Image (note: this was on Firefox). With the customize window open right click the button and select Paste Button Image.
The pasted image won’t be transparent, so you need to edit the image. Right-click and select Edit Button Image. Then erase all the black area.
Done
Your toolbar should look something like this:
- Well, you could have before if you wanted. I’m sure I’m not the first to come up with this. I know a few people already do this because it came up on the TortoiseSVN mailing list a while back.↩
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The server was down overnight due to some maintenance replacing a UPS. After the replacement I forgot to turn the box back on. Anyway, it’s back up now.
Sorry about the downtime.
or you could use this addin that works kind of like SourceSafe. http://ankhsvn.tigris.org/
Yeah, I used ankhsvn a while ago (over a year ago now). It had enough quirks back then that I stopped using it. I’ll give ankh another try once it reaches 1.0.
Plus, I just love Tortoise. It’s a very high quality project with frequent updates and improvements. Even the nightly releases I’ve tried are amazingly stable and usable.
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I have a tip. If you follow the link to the TortoiseSVN repository on Tigris to get the icons, you will get the latest icons. If you have an earlier version of the program the icons might be different. But you can find the icons for your version in the tags folder of the repository.
Also, Visual Studio 2005 could help by naming the external commands in the commands tab for toolbar customization (instead of external command 1 to 25).
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Great! I did it in MS Visual Studio 2003.
A little modification in external commands:
Title Tortoise &Update
Command C:Program FilesTortoiseSVNbinTortoiseProc.exe
Arguments /command:update /path:”$(SolutionDir)” /notempfile
I should removed the quotation marks to make the commands to execute:
Arguments /command:update /path:$(SolutionDir) /notempfile
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.subversion.tortoisesvn.user/5290
sir here i want to use tortoise as a client and cvs as server …and i need to communicate through the asp.net application to client and server
give me the code../API to communicate server and client
I am interested in reading your article, but I have a problem viewing this site.
The menu type area on the left is covering up the left side of the article.
The maroon “menu” box is inside the gray “article contents” box. I am using IE 6.0.2900.2180.
Garry Bit has something very similar: http://garrys-brain.blogspot.com/2006/11/visual-studio-2005-and-tortoisesvn.html
Sunil: Sir, use TortoiseCVS instead TortoiseSVN, that is your code
Regarding jwalker’s comment above: The quotation marks are indeed necessary if your solution path contains spaces. The problem is that when copying/pasting the commands in the blog post, the quotation marks are not in the correct format. Simply replace them with the standard quotation marks.
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I can’t open a solution in visual studio from tortoise (repository)
please help me!!!!!!!
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Did anyone attend PDC last week?
its nice post, specially newbie like me,
Oh hell yeah no graphical smilies around here.,
Great post, well written!,
Nice man!,
Bravo! Nice Article.,
what gives you that idea?,
great tips. I enjoyed reading this,
Nice article.
For checking the Remote modifictions too without needing to click on Check Repository what we need to do?
I tried many versions usine remote
using remote:”Repository path”
I tried passing userIs aqnd paasord too through -u and -p, nothing worked.
Is it even possible to do? and How?
Title Tortoise Check for &Modifications
Command C:Program FilesTortoiseSVNbinTortoiseProc.exe
Arguments /command:repostatus /path:”$(SolutionDir)” /notempfile
thanx jon
I does not work for me in Visual C++ 2010 Express – I succeeded getting the toolbar and the external commands themselves, but somehow I can’t set any icons. Does anyone know a solution for this?
Thanks in advance!