Peter Seale's weblog

Wednesday, August 20, 2008 8:00:12 AM UTC 

First off, I'll point out I'm not an SVN expert, nor am I a CodePlex expert. I've just figured out how to do the basics, and found that the process was way too complicated. It's like you need a diagram to figure out how to make it work! What I've created below is that diagram: here's how to do a checkout of your CodePlex project from SVNBridge!

Step 0: I assume you have installed SVNBridge and a SVN client (e.g. TortoiseSVN)

If not, make that happen first.

Step 1: Figure out where your CodePlex project is hosted

Step 2: Figure out where your SVNBridge proxy is running

(NOTE: do not mess with the SVNBridge "Proxy settings" unless you're the one person in the world still running behind an authenticated HTTP proxy. You're not, so don't mess with it)

Step 3: Now we're ready to CONCATENATE!

Step 4: Let's try this URL in Tortoise!

RESULT: Success!

Footnote: Authentication is another matter

If you need to do updates/commits/etc, you'll need to be sure you're authenticated properly. Use a slightly modified version of CodePlex username and password:

SND\cp_[[yourCodePlexusername]]

(yourCodePlexpassword)

Footnote: If you can't see the source code on the CodePlex site, it doesn't exist

If you're having problems accessing the source through SVNBridge, but it's not spitting out any errors, then consider the possibility that the source isn't public yet.