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How to Upload an SVN to Your Server for Garry's Mod

Subversion, or SVN, was originally developed to help programmers keep in sync with one another across different computers. It ensures that everyone is working with the same set of files at the same version; if someone commits changes to the project, everyone receives updated versions of the file. Since then, it has been used to keep regular members on "Garry's Mod" servers synchronized in terms of add-ons. Hosting your own SVN without dedicated support can be difficult, but Google provides free SVN repositories that can be used for "Garry's Mod" files.

Things You'll Need

SVN client

Instructions

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  Navigate to the Google Code website and log in or create an account.
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  Open "Project Hosting" on Google Code and click on the "Create a new project" link.
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  Fill in the fields on the page that appears with your project name, a summary and a description. The project name will be included in the URL for clients' SVN programs, so make it descriptive of your server. Select "Subversion" from the "Version control system" section, and "GNU GPL 3.0" from "Source code license," if you're not sure which license applies to your files.
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  Click the "Create project" button to finalize your hosting. From your project homepage, click on "Source" and leave the page open for reference.
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  Create a folder on your computer and fill it with all of the files that you want included in the SVN. Open your SVN client and export the contents of the folder to "https://your-gmod-server.googlecode.com/svn/trunk," replacing "your-gmod-server" with the name of your project. If you don't already have your own, some well-known SVN clients include TortoiseSVN, SmartSVN and RapidSVN.

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