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As of Feb. 7, 2006 the JA-SIG-hosted web interface for exploring the JA-SIG SVN repository is an instance of the Fisheye source control management visualization tool. You can use this web interface to the uPortal SVN code repository to browse through all the branches of the uPortal code.

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svn co https://www.ja-sig.org/svn/up2/tags/<tag-name> <local-path>

Not sure what tag you'd like to check out? You can access SVN through your web browser to browse the list of available tags.

uPortal 3 is a separate project under a folder parallel to "up2" named, not surprisingly, "up3 folder". Use the following command to checkout the "trunk" of up3:

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svn co https://www.ja-sig.org/svn/up3/trunk

"trunk" is the latest and greatest code. up2 also has a "trunk", as does any project following SVN conventions.

uPortal portlets are kept as a separate projects under the portlets folder. Use the following command to checkout a the latest code portlet project:

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svn co https://www.ja-sig.org/svn/portlets/PORTLET_NAME

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<portlet-name>/trunk

How do you know what portlets are available for checkout? You guessed it: take a peek via your web browser.

Tip
Avoid checking out huge amounts of code
Avoid checking out huge amounts of code

Previewing a URL via your web browser before executing an svn checkout command against it is a good practice for avoiding accidentally checking out more code than you intend.

For instance, this command will check out a full copy of every uPortal 2 release ever. You probably don't want to do this.

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svn co https://www.ja-sig.org/svn/up2/

There are other projects in JA-SIG SVN besides uPortal 2 and 3 and portlets. (Channels, CAS, ...). You can review the listing of JA-SIG SVN projects via your web browser.

Anonymous access to CVS

You can access older uPortal code via anonymous access using a CVS client. Most *nix operating systems have a CVS client available and there are CVS clients available for Microsoft Windows WinCVS being a popular choice). The uPortal project's CVS repository can be checked out through anonymous (pserver) CVS with the following instruction set. When prompted for a password for anonymous, simply press the Enter key.

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