Hosting and Subversion

I found that Google makes hosting open source projects extremely easy. The hardest part of this assignment was actually learning how to get TortoiseSVN to upload my files to Google hosting. However after that it was all downhill and fairly simple.

Overall Results:

I was able to complete this assignment with out omitting any steps. I found that Google's user interface was very straight forth and easy to navigate and execute desired operations. Also I liked how Google Code Hosting has all the project information on one webpage ranging from the Wiki pages to the code for the robot.

Difficulties:

I found that it was hard to use TortoiseSVN to do the initial upload of files to Google Code Hosting. After watching the screencast for the week I thought that TortoiseSVN would have a similar interface for uploading as SmartSVN. However I found that there was so such interface and I had to fool around a little with TortoiseSVN until I finally figured out how to upload the files. In order to upload in TortoiseSVN you follow the same basic steps as SmartSVN in that you create a new folder and copy and paste the files you want into it. Then in TortoiseSVN you have to select the files and folders you want to upload (or the root directory would work too I think), right click and select the TortoiseSVN option. Then you have to click "add" and select the files you would like to add to the project. After that you can right click the root directory of the project and select the "SVN Commit..." button which will then proceed to as you to log in and then will upload all of your files to Google Code Hosting.

BlackMagic Code Site:

The BlackMagic site can be found here.