I wrote a small document for my team that describes how to install the SubVersion plug-in for IDEA IntelliJ 4.5. SubVersion is a version control system that aims to replace CVS one day. Intellij 4.5
is my favorite Java IDE I work with.
The svnup plugin for Intellij 4.5 is still in beta mode. I spent 2 hours to make
it work under Windows just because I was missing some DLL… The web site is a bit ouf of date,
and the documentation also. I finally found some answers in the mailing list.
Here is my small how-to:
------------------------------------------------------------------------------ How to install the subversion plugin for IDEA Intellij 4.5 ? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Platform: Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional Edition. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Author: Nicolas Martignole Date : 19th oct 2004 Install TortoiseSVN for Win32. The zip file is available from http://tortoisesvn.tigris.org/download.html After a reboot, from the Start Menu select Settings->Control Panel Select "System". In the "Advanced" tab pane, select "Environment variables" then in the 2nd pane, add to PATH the TortoiseSVN/bin folder so that the various DLL which are located under this folder gets added to the PATH. Your PATH env should now contain "C:\Program Files\TortoiseSVN\bin" The official plugin website is http://svnup.tigris.org/ 1/ Download svnup-0.9.2.jar from http://svnup.tigris.org/files/documents/646/16639/svnup-0.9.2.jar 2/ Download svn4idea4-0.9.1.jar for IDEA IntelliJ 4.x. There's no 9.2 actually but that is not important. The URL is: http://svnup.tigris.org/files/documents/646/16579/svn4idea45-0.9.1.jar 3/ Download svn-win32-1.1.0_javahl.zip from the link: http://subversion.tigris.org/files/documents/15/17374/svn-win32-1.1.0_javahl.zip 4/ Unzip svn-win32-1.1.0_javahl.zip to a temp folder, you should get 2 files: - libsvnjavahl-1.dll - svnjavahl.jar 5/ Creates a new folder named "svn4idea" under the IDEA Intellij 4.5 plugins folder (C:\IntelliJ-IDEA-4.5\plugins) 6/ Creates a lib folder into this folder (e.g. C:\IntelliJ-IDEA-4.5\plugins\svn4idea) 7/ Copy svnjavahl.jar, svn4idea4-0.9.1.jar and svnup-0.9.2.jar to the lib folder you just created (C:\IntelliJ-IDEA-4.5\plugins\svn4idea\lib) 9/ Copy libsvnjavahl-1.dll (file from svn-win32-1.1.0_javahl.zip ) to C:\IntelliJ-IDEA-4.5\bin so that IDEA Intellij can find it. 10/ Start idea 4.5 11/ In the File menu, select "Settings" 12/ In the Project tab, select "Version Control". A Subversion option should appear in the Combo box. It is really important that you install a SVN client such as TortoiseSVN before you intend to use the svnup plugin for IDEA Intellij. The JavaHL svnup DLL requires a bunch of DLL from any SVN client.
Update 28th oct 2004:
Thanks Michael. I corrected the file name and the how-to should be correct now.
