Experiences with Subversion

I've been meaning to setup a CVS server on my machine for my programming projects, and this weekend I finally got around to it. Well, actually I set up subversion. I started on Friday night, got it working on Saturday, broke it, and got it working again tonight. So far it has been broken more than it has worked :)

I posted a couple of links to del.icio.us that I used, if you're interested. I started by grabbing the disk images from Fred's iDisk. I was a little surprised that you have to install them all, but that turns out to be the case. I followed bits of the instructions from the other links, and I got it to work after lots of fumbling about.

I created a repository for a project, checked it back out, setup Xcode to use it, and did some modifications. At some point after that my powerbook decided not to wake from sleep, which has happened a few times since I've gotten it. And after that Xcode was reporting every file as a conflict, and any terminal commands were acting strange. After poking around in the documentation and searching on the web, I figured I should try repairing the repository. After that I needed to re-fix the permissions on the database to get it working again.

I'm not all that encouraged by my experiences so far, hopefully I've worked through my share of problems for a while. Let me know if anyone else has any interesting experiences with it...