SVN client on windows without administrator rights

Question

I am trying to install an svn client on a friend's work windows laptop without much success. It seems that everyone is using TortoiseSVN nowadays, which unfortunately doesn't install without administrator access. Is there any way around it or another client I can try?

I don't need anything fancy - just basic http/https, but a GUI is very much preferred over a command line client.

Thanks!

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I just verified that both SmartSVN and RapidSVN mentioned previously require administrator access to insatll on Windows, just like TortoiseSVN.

:(

Solution 1

Ok, I finally found out the (I think) correct answer to this question. The zipped binaries are available in the win32svn project here: http://sourceforge.net/projects/win32svn/files/.

In the subdirectory of your favorite version, just download the file that has a name like svn-win32-1.6.16.zip and unpack to your home dir, local hd or (in my case) usb stick.

Hope this helps someone! I was very surprised to find all links I found pointed to installers which you may not be able to run when you don't have adminstrator rights.

EDIT: this is, of course, the CLI version; I guess this answer is more for people who, like me, are looking for it and arrived at this question :)

Solution 2

http://portableapps.com/node/6767

RapidSVN Portable

Solution 3

This is a late answer, hope it help someone else. My answer is smartsvn, it is a perfect software, with foundation version free to use.

In their download all page, you can download a portable version, jre is also included in this zip package, that means you can even run the software without java installed, since java is not included by default in the latest windows system.

Solution 4

There's a huge list of them here on Wikipedia, that should give you a few options, but I believe that SmartSVN is good (not used it, only had a look)

Solution 5

RapidSVN works quite happily without being installed.

Unfortunately - it's only packaged as an installer exe.

What you need to do is install RapidSVN on some machine where you DO have admin rights, and copy the RapidSVN folder from program files onto a USB drive or the hard drive of the machine you want to run it on. You can then run 'RapidSVN.exe' from any machine, and it works quite happily.

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