Assembla Free svn hosting: how to setup your project

Assembla offers FREE Trac and svn hosting for a long time, here is a quick way how to setup your project with tools provided by assembla.com services:

1. Login or create an account.
2. Go to "Spaces" tab and click "Create a new space"
3. Fill you space name and URL name for friendly url
4. Check "Software developers" option.
5. Optional: adjust security, wiki settings, appearance and invite new team members.
6. Click next to create your space.

You have your trac and svn tools ready to use, on Trac tab of the new space you will find the information how to access new created tools: trac and svn.


If you have troubles with these steps, please take a look at this video.

Why Assembla is better:

• You have no limit on team members like other service providers enforce.
• You get 200Mb for free for your open source or private projects. 2Gb is just for 50$/month.
  
• Students and open source projects can get more free space.
• You have a lot of tools to play with: Scrum, Mephisto Blog, Staffing, Mercurial, Image Annotations, Chat. Take a look at assembla.com features for more info.
  

Assembla Free svn hosting: how to setup your project.

Assembla offers FREE Trac and svn hosting for a long time, here is a quick way how to setup your project with tools provided by assembla.com services:

1. Login or create an account.
2. Go to "Spaces" tab and click "Create a new space"
3. Fill you space name and URL name for friendly url
4. Check "Software developers" option.
5. Optional: adjust security, wiki settings, appearance and invite new team members.
6. Click next to create your space.

You have your trac and svn tools ready to use, on Trac tab of the new space you will find the information how to access new created tools: trac and svn.


If you have troubles with these steps, please take a look at this video.

Why Assembla is better:

• You have no limit on team members like other service providers enforce.
• You get 500Mb for free for your open source or private projects. 2Gb is just for 19$/month.
  
• Students and open source projects can get more free space.
• You have a lot of tools to play with: Scrum, Mephisto Blog, Staffing, Mercurial, Image Annotations, Chat. Take a look at assembla.com tour for more info.
  

Free mercurial hosting for open/private projects

Today Assembla launched new tool: Trac&Mercurial. Every developer can create a mercurial repository for development with few clicks.

1. Login/register to Assembla.
2. Open mercurial catalog page and click "Select this" button to create a space from template with trac/mercurial and other tools.
3. You can browse your trac at http://trac-hg.assembla.com/url_name and clone/push your mercurial repository at http://hg.assembla.com/url_name

Update: below video is old, but can be used.
You can watch this video about my experience setting mercurial at assembla.

About mercurial:
Mercurial is a new open source version control system based on the distributed model. In Mercurial, as in Subversion or CVS, developers work on a local working directory. However, unlike centralized solutions, Mercurial also stores a copy of the entire project history on each developer's machine. In this way, developers can work in parallel, even without a network connection.