Installing SVN (Subversion) Eclipse Plugin

These are the step to install subversion's plugin for eclipse Ganymede.


1) To download SVN eclipse plugin, go to the help menu in eclipse and select software update.
Select the available software tab and remove the text from the filter textbox that says, "type filter text" and type C. It is possible you need to press the refresh button. Select the eclipse C/C++ Development Tools and press the install button. Press next, accept the license and press finish.

Go to the Software Update site again, and select available software. Select Add Site and paste this URL in it. http://www.polarion.org/projects/subversive/download/eclipse/2.0/update-site/

You should also add this site: http://subclipse.tigris.org/svn/subclipse/

Now go back to the filter text box and type subversion. Select the Ganymede which will install all the subversion files below it. Press the install button and press finish.


Press the subversion SVN connector sources and install all of the binaries below it.


Restart eclipse.


If you get this error when checking out a project using this plugin, it is because you need to add the www.polarion.org site that I stated above.
SVN: '0x00400006: Validate Repository Location' operation finished with error: Selected SVN connector library is not available or cannot be loaded.


To test subversion when eclipse is loaded, select File->New->Project->SVN->Project from SVN
paste this url in the URL text box. http://subclipse.tigris.org/svn/subclipse/
and press next. The user name is guest, and password is left blank. You will see trunk, branches and tags display in the console. That will tell you that your subversion is working correctly.

If you get this error when loading eclipse: Caused by: java.io.UTFDataFormatException: malformed input

You might need to remove the projects from your workspace, and import the projects over again.