[Info-vax] VMS, svn and Netbeans

[Jojimbo]

My current shop is using svn (subversion) on a windows server for
source control.  I am developing a bunch of DCL scripts to automate
IDX *GE centricity) task.  I'd like to get these scripts under source
control and am investigating some options.  (yes, I know there are
other source control options on VMS but I'd like to use the one we
got, i.e. svn).  A couple options I've thought of are:

1) svn client from svnkit and the DCL files manipulated from VMS
dollar sign with svn commands like: commit, add, etc...  And regular
VMS editor on the files.  And dealing with file attributes as needed.

2) netbeans client on my PC talking to netbeans VMS server thingy and
using the netbeans svn client.to talk to the svn repo and the netbeans
edittor on the DCL files.

I'm obviously real hazy on the details of how all this might work.
And maybe it's not worth all the hassle of ODS-5 volumes (would this
be required?) and my experience with Java on VMS is certainly not
positive at least so far.

One part of me wants to set netbeans up just to prove I can do it.
But will it be actually usable?  Comments welcome.

Regards, Jim