A designer’s guide to installing a local copy of Subversion for use with Coda
Tags: coda, panic, subversion, svn
If you’re a web designer or developer who works on a mac, there’s a good chance that you use Panic’s awesome Coda Software to do so. I’ve used Coda day in and day out, pretty much since it’s launch. It’s interface is second-to-none and I find it really aids my design-oriented mind to get around CSS and HTML with ease.
Anyway, you’ve probably wondered what all the fuss is about subversion integration in Coda. Subversion is an open source revision tracking software that can be installed on a web server, to help one or many programmers track changes on a website. To put it simply, it lets you attach comments to every single edit of a website, and roll back to previous versions easily.
The trouble is that Subversion is generally installed on a web server, and is installed using the command line. This may not be a problem for people who think in 1s and 0s, but for the design-minded, this can be a little daunting.
However, even if you’re only working locally, there’s a great benefit to using this software to track revisions to your code. Here’s a designer’s guide to installing subversion locally on a Mac, and getting it to play nice with Coda. Guide after the jump… Continue Reading