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Redmine Cookbook

By : Shamasis Bhattacharya
Book Image

Redmine Cookbook

By: Shamasis Bhattacharya

Overview of this book

In a variety of online project management tools, Redmine markets itself as offering flexibility. Choosing the right management tool can mean the difference between the success and failure of a project. Flexible project management tools bend themselves to fit your needs, whether that’s communication regarding a simple project, or collaboration, or more complex project methodology such as SCRUM, or an issue-code relationship, or the need of different methodology for your project. Whether you are project manager or system administrator, this book provides valuable recipes to get the best possible performance out of your team, organization, infrastructure, and Redmine itself. Through a series of carefully crafted recipes covering the nitty-gritty of Redmine, you’ll be guided through the installation of Redmine, as well as how to fine-tune and customize your Redmine installation. Finally, we walk you through integrating Redmine with other softwares and databases like Tortoise SVN and Visual Studio and troubleshooting Redmine.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Redmine Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Integrating with Tortoise SVN or GIT


TortoiseSVN and TortoiseGIT integrate Redmine tasks in to their user interface through a plugin. This recipe explains how to install and configure the required plugin.

Getting ready

You need to download and install TortoiseSVN or TortoiseGIT from their websites: https://tortoisesvn.net/ or https://tortoisegit.org/.

How to do it…

To start using the Tortoise SVN Redmine plugin, perform the following steps on client machines:

  1. Download the TurtleMine plugin from https://github.com/jlestein/turtlemine and build it in Visual Studio, or download the compiled versions from http://www.redminecookbook.com/turtlemine.

  2. Install the TurtleMine plugin.

  3. Open Windows Explorer, navigate to your SVN project, right-click to open the Tortoise SVN menu, and choose Tortoise SVN | Settings.

  4. Choose Issue Tracker Integration.

  5. Click Add:

  6. On the Working copy path, find SVN project that you want to use Redmine for, and click Select Folder.

  7. On the Parameters field, paste the value of your project...