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Dropbox as SVN Repository

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Version controlling is one of the most important concepts in software development. It helps us to maintain different version of files and folders in a very easy way among different peoples. One of the most popular versions controlling system is SVN.  This post is not about describing the features of SVN, rather it will focus some advanced issues here. The most critical (and important) problem I faced while working in online distributed team is to maintain the codes among my different team mates. Well, there are many free online SVN servers out there which will provide you space to store your SVN repository, but there is another way you can bypass those SVN server if you don’t want to put your code on their servers. Below are the steps. 1. Setup environment Download  TortoiseSVN  and install. 2. Create folder 2.1 Go to your Dropbox folder and create a new folder named 'DropboxSvnRepository' 3. Create repository 3.1 Right click on the 'D