source control when away from office

Question

I sometimes code when i'm away from the office. I would like to continue to use the benifits of source control when not connected to the company network.

My ideal system would allow me to checkin revisions to a repository on my laptop that would then sync with our main SVN repository when I connect to the company network. when syncing with the main repository it would be good if the individual check-ins and and comments could be maintained.

I will not always have an internet connection so VPN is not a great solution.

It may be possible to change the configuration of the SVN server if necessary but I would prefer not to.

Does anyone know of any tools that will help me accomplish this?

Thanks

Answer 1

This is the principle of GIT (a kind of new subversion). Git has local repository. For SVN, I have a VPN to the company, so I can still use the SVN Server from home, maybe this can be a solution to avoid changing of repository system (I know you aren't always connected... but well... without any change it might be VPN or try GIT).

Answer 2

Not sure if standard SVN can do this. I know this is what distributed versioning systems were designed for (amongst other things).

You could try SVK which is basically a decentralized modification to SVN.