Computing/Subversion

Subversion project page

Reference

• CVS is out, Subversion is in - a RedHat article
• Version Control with Subversion - ebook

GUI

• RapidSVN - Windows, Linux, Mac
• SvnX - Mac only
• eSvn - Linux only, an RPM available
• Svn Explorer - Windows only

Instructions

• Create repository

svnadmin create --fs-type fsfs $HOME/svnrepo

• Checkout file

svn checkout file://$HOME/svnrepo $HOME/checkout

• to check the status of a file

svn status [PATH]

• '?' means no file named README is in HEAD of the repository, which is what we expect as this is an empty repository
• 'A' means the file has been added to our working copy, but not yet checked in. In general, svn status will only show us lines of output for changes in our working copy
• to add a file to the working copy

svn add README

• commit the changes from working copy to repository

svn commit -m 'my first file!'

• bring changes from repository to the working copy

svn update

• view history

svn log