Assembla¶
Assembla is a hosting service in the cloud that support in particular SVN and git repositories. In practice this is a good option to host SVN repositories freely. Much more feature are available with paid plans.
Creating an account¶
To get a free account use ‘Pricing’ and then click on the link
Sign Up for a Free Plan
that is on the page as shown below:
You can sign up with a google account. Otherwise you will just need to a few information: username, password, email, first name, last name.
Select add a SVN repository if this is what you want and give it a name. That’s all.
Adding collaborators to a repository¶
To add collaborators to the repository click on the repository and then
select the Team
tab. You just have to enter the email of each collaborator
and select their status for the selected repository:
member
for read/write accesswatcher
for read access
Using a SVN repository¶
SVN repositories are used remotely via SVN client. In order to do this
you must know the URI
of the repository and give this URI to the client.
The URI can be found on the repository page in the SVN
tab in the
Checkout URL
field as shown below.