If you browse the website of Subversion you will find possible ways to install the Native SVN Binaries. The answer is simply because TortoiseSVN does not install the Subversion Binaries aka the SVN command-line (svn.exe). The errors would be something similar to the following:Įrrors found while svn working copies detection (But that does not mean SVN does not work with phpstorm) That’s the catch! Even if you have TortoiseSVN installed, you probably could not get PHPstorm to work with SVN. What Does Support via Native Client Mean? This was announced by Jetbrains on this post (click here), they mentioned that PHPstorm 7.1 does work with SVN 1.8 via Native Client. PHPStorm 7.1 Does Offer Support for Subversion 1.8 Ok, now let’s go for the long version with details. Configure PHPstorm to use SVN Commandline: Files > Settings > Version Control > Subversion > Use Command-Line (See screenshot & details in the articles below).

Download & install SlikSVN for windows from here – click!.Quick/Short Steps To Make SVN 1.8 Work With PHPStorm 7.1 : So even if you have PHPstorm 7, you will need to upgrade to 7.1 SVN 1.8 will NOT work with PHPstorm 7 or lower.I’ll show you quickly how this can be done. It has to be noted that the issue is not with the software, but with an understanding of how SVN gets integrated and configured to be used alongside phpstorm. But still some people are having trouble to get SVN 1.8 to work with PHPStorm. This has changed with the updated phpstorm version 7.1 (this version being the latest one at the time of this writing). With previous versions of PHPstorm, Jetbrains did not support SVN 1.8.

You know how to install PHPstorm (the awesome PHP IDE) & have it handy on your machine.

I’m using PHPstorm 7.1 (the latest one at the time of this writing).

For this article we are using Windows 8 (64-bit) – but this should work for windows 7 too.

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