Anyone know of good documentation of how to start a project on Google Code?

http://code.google.com/p/cpp-quiz-generator/

I haven’t actually started coding this yet, but I’m wanting to do a simple C++ project over the summer for fun and to help further my knowledge of C++. I want to keep track as I progress, hence I wanted to use SVN.

I’m wanting to use TortoiseSVN for this, but I don’t know how to start it (like initially creating the repository) and update it as I go along. Anyone know of any references links I could look at?

(I also have another project I’m working on that I’m repurposing old code for.)

Tortoise SVN is a client. If you’re wanting to have your own repositories you’ll need a server as well. Or mostly, anyway... see the relevant question/answers here http://tortoisesvn.tigris.org/faq.html#noserver

Also there is a free ebook regarding SVN at http://svnbook.red-bean.com/

With TSVN you can very easily create and use a local repository on your own machine with no server at all. If it’s a one-person project and you don’t need to share it with others, it will be much faster on your local machine. I did it this way with my MODx work before I had write-access to the MODx SVN repository. Using a remote repository later is a piece of cake since everything works exactly the same.

On a Windows machine, once TSVN is installed, you just right click on a directory and select "create repository here." TSVN automatically integrated with my programming editor and I do all my version control very smoothly from inside the editor. Version control is great to have in general, but it’s especially nice to have when you’re learning a new language.

BTW, it’s not completely crazy to learn C before learning C++. It’s a good excuse to buy the finest programming book ever written: The C Programming Language by Kernighan and Ritchie (http://www.amazon.com/Programming-Language-Prentice-Hall-Software/dp/0131103628).

I already know a bit of C/C++, this is more for going over some of the older stuff I’ve worked on and trying out other things.

I’ll look at those links you guys posted.

Quote from: Soshite at Apr 28, 2009, 09:28 PM

I’m wanting to use TortoiseSVN for this, but I don’t know how to start it (like initially creating the repository) and update it as I go along. Anyone know of any references links I could look at?

I assume the googlecode link is your project. In that case the repository is already at the google servers. You just need to check it out.

Check out the "Daily Use Guide" section of the TortoiseSVN manual it is pretty good. Here is a link to the online version of the TortoiseSVN manual http://tortoisesvn.net/docs/release/TortoiseSVN_en/tsvn-dug.html

Another place to look would be the subversion section in the google code FAQ (actually the whole FAQ is quite nice).
http://code.google.com/p/support/wiki/FAQ#Subversion

For example there is an entry on how to figure out your password to the repository (not the same as your google account)

If I nuked the directory on Google Code (needed to do some testing), what would I do?

Create a local repo on my computer, but then what would I do afterwards?