I would try again, it works from here.

Best,

Joe

Hi All,

This is a strange issue. I tried it on my old 32 bit laptop and I get the same problem, it gets to a point where it stops downloading any files and just hangs. I will try to upgrade to a newer version of Tortoise on the laptop and see if that solves it. It currently has TortoiseSVN 1.6.5 (Subversion 1.6.5).

On my main 64 bit machine it works but I have a much older version of TortoiseSVN 1.5.9 (Subversion 1.5.6)

I would like to find a simple solution because I fear that many will experience this problem.

Best,

Joe

Hi David,

I'm investigating this issue more today, I've been emailing back and forth with the Codeplex team. They admit it is slow but say they have tested checkout of mojoportal on a number of machines and it works every time.

I can say that on one of my machines it works every time but on the other it fails every time. This makes me think there is some client machine factor to the problem so I'm trying to figure out what is different about my problem machine vs the other one. I'm going to run Fiddler on the problem machine today while trying to do a checkout and see if the http traffic shows anything different or errors happening.

It is also possible to get the code with Team Explorer, a free tool from Microsoft that can run as a stand alone or a VS 2010 plugin. It works natively with the TFS (Team Foundation Server) repository which is really what we have at Codeplex, svn is made available through a server side svn bridge that translates svn commands into TFS and responds with expected svn responses. So Team Explorer is more reliable, I use it for actually managing the repository merging and branching since the svn bridge is known to not support the branching and merging commands.

The url for connecting with Team Explorer can be found on the source code tab on our Codeplex page. When getting the code, you do only want to get the trunk folder, not the whole repository.

Best,

Joe

Sorry guys,

it turns out that Team Explorer cannot be used for anonymous checkout.

I'm still investigating the svn issue on my problem machine but so far have not been able to solve it. It is really strange that it works every time on some machines and fails every time on others, if only I can figure out why.

The only other alternative would be to have them change our repository to a Mercurial repository and then we would all have to use TortoiseHG. This would be my last resort choice.

Best,

Joe

Ok, we are transitioned to a new Mercurial repository and the code is now available again, but now requires using TortoiseAG

There is a tutorial about using TortoiseAG with Codeplex here, and the url for the mojoPortal repository you need to clone is https://hg01.codeplex.com/mojoportal

I'll be updating the documentation soon but the above link has everything you need, really you only need the first 3 steps in the tutorial.

There are some real advantages to using Mercurial repository and TortoiseAG over svn or Team Explorer, you can commit and track your own changes locally and I think with a Codeplex account you may even be able to push changes but they won't be applied and would still require someone with commit access to the server to accept the changes. I'm still learning it myself but will document it more once I get up to speed.

Best,

Joe

Thought I would share the happy ending to this story.

The Miraculous Resurrection of Novell Forge svn and the Recovery of Source Code History.

Cheers,

Joe