Introduction
Repositories are significant for recording and storing information pertinent to the software under development or update. There are various methods and techniques through which software repositories can be achieved. In most cases with numerous versions of a single software application, version control tools are usually employed to help with tracking the changes and bugs in different versions of the software (Dabbish et al., 2012). On the other hand, software with a small number of versions and updates do just fine with the old technique called documentation. The current rate of the growth of technology presents myriad threats to software security, thus the need for updated versions of a single software application.
The need for constant update and development of different versions overwhelms the applications of documentation as a technique of keeping track of changes and bugs in software applications. As a consequence, current software version update and maintenance are achieved through version control tools. Version control tools present the software development team with a technique through which the source code of the current version and the previous versions of the software can be altered and maintained for the code base security. The application and use of version tools in configuring software repository allows for maximum flexibility as well as stability.
There are numerous software version tools by different vendors. To ensure maximized flexibility and stability, it is imperative to choose the appropriate version tool for updating and configuring software repository. Some of the most common version tools include Git, SVN and CVS. While CVS sets the standards for other version control tools, its code base is not entirely featured compared to other solutions like SVN or Git. It is not complicated as compared to other tools available. As compared to the other available tools, Subversion (SVN) is widely used. It is open-source with different available clients (Bajracharya, Ossher & Lopes, 2009).
For this software project, SVN tool fits the profile. It has simple steps applied in configuring the repository. This is done through the use of svnadmin utility. The utility is used to create and set FSFS backed repository, and Berkeley DB backed repository.
References
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Dabbish, L., Stuart, C., Tsay, J., & Herbsleb, J. (2012, February). Social coding in GitHub: transparency and collaboration in an open software repository. In Proceedings of the ACM 2012 conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (pp. 1277-1286). ACM.
