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Installing cygwin subversion?

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tatsudoshi:
Hi, I have already subversion running on my virtualbox vm so I am uncertain if I should skip the subversion from the cygwin installer. Is it just an interface to the svn server or the server itself?

bluebrother:
It's a client for subversion, not a server. If you're using the VMware image you don't need svn in Cygwin - but in that case you don't need Cygwin at all anyway.

tatsudoshi:
I am running a win7 32bit guest dev system, so cygwin. I have subversion already installed from the apache foundation for my other projects this is why I am unsure of what the svn in the cygwin installer is for.

But you say it's a client so I guess I don't need it as I already have a client installed, correct?

Another way to ask, at what point do I know if I need it? Checkout?

saratoga:
You can type SVN at the command line.  If it works, you're good to go.

FWIW, running cygwin is generally a bad idea.  Running Cygwin inside a VM makes even less sense.  Just download a ubuntu virtualbox image from source forge. 

tatsudoshi:
Many have told me that but I have my reasons and all seems to depend on how often I am going to compile. I haven't yet done one yet so don't know the compile time but if it becomes a hassle I will move to a linux environment but for now this was faster for me to set up since I already have a dev vm running.

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