TortoiseSVN is an easy to use Windows SVN client. As some of you may have noticed I’ve been writing a few WordPress plugins. In order to get your plugins published on the WordPress.org website you have to use a code control program called SVN. I use the TortoiseSVN client to manage my code repositories.

“Subversion (SVN) is a version control system initiated in 1999 by CollabNet Inc. It is used to maintain current and historical versions of files such as source code, web pages, and documentation. Its goal is to be a mostly-compatible successor to the widely used Concurrent Versions System (CVS).” (Wikipedia)

TortoiseSVN is an easy to use Windows based client for the popular SVN system. It has a contextual menu making it one of the easiest programs to use. Simple right click any file or folder to check out, commit or create on an SVN repository. In my example all I had to do was check out my WordPress plugin project from the repository, add my file, and commit, all done with just a few mouse clicks.

I highly recommend SVN to anyone looking into starting a code repository. Download the server version at http://subversion.tigris.org/.

The TortoiseSVN windows SVN client can be downloaded below.