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FAQ

What is Versionshelf?

Versionshelf gives you hosted Subversion and Mercurial repositories with an easy to use admin frontend.

What is version control?

Version control allows you to manage changes to your files in a collaborative manner.
Versionshelf supplies with Mercurial and Subversion the necessary tools as a central service with a smart interface.
You can find more information on these topics under the following links:

What is Subversion?

Subversion is an open source application used for revision control.
You can find more information about Subversion under the following links:

What is Mercurial?

Mercurial is an open source, cross-platform, distributed revision control.
You can find more information about Mercurial under the following links:

Can I install custom post-commit hooks?

No, you can't. However, we provide support for rss feeds, twitter and Campfire out of the box.
For more custom needs we provide an URL notification hook for each repository (often called a web hook). That hook requests one or more URLs after a commit has happened posts the following arguments: repository, revision, author and log so you can do whatever you like with it. The triggered URL can be a script that takes the information supplied and takes action, eg.: trigger your Continuous Integration Server, checkout the latest version of your webpage, send notifications by sms, .... The possibilities are endless.

What are the system requirements to use Versionshelf?

The Versionshelf administration interface is web-based, so there's nothing to install and no server/platform requirements to worry about. On the client side you need a Subversion and/or Mercurial client - more on this topic below.

What Subversion clients do you use?

We are happy with the Subversion command-line client svn in combination with our favorite text editor SubEthaEdit on Mac OS X.
Following some links to Subversion command-line client distributions:

Of course there are also several graphical Subversion clients:

What Mercurial clients do you use?

We stick with the command-line client but sometimes a graphical client is also nice.
Following some links to Mercurial command-line client distributions:

Of course there are also several graphical Mercurial clients: Most IDEs also supply nice version control integration.

What about privacy?

See privacy policy.

What about security?

We do nightly offsite backups of our servers, keep the os and servers at the latest patch levels and only use premium hardware with RAID1 mirrored disk arrays. All repositories and admin interfaces are securely accessible via encrypted SSL connections.

Howto unsubscribe?

See next topic.

Do you offer a free trial period for new accounts? What about cancellation?

Yes. If you cancel a paying plan within 30 days of signing up you won't be charged a thing. You can cancel at any time, but refunds can not be issued after your initial 30 day trial and we don't refund for partial months. Note that only new accounts are eligible for 30 day free trials — upgrades do not qualify.

Can I change my subscription at any time?

Yes. Click on the Plan button once you are logged in and make the change there. A new billing cycle will begin immediately.

What types of payment do you accept?

We accept subscriptions with PayPal. For customers of the european union we offer yearly prepayment as well.

The given plans do not fit for us, do you offer bigger ones?

If the given number of repositories and user accounts or the quota for repositories is too small for you, please and tell us your needs.