How to Install and TortoiseSVN and Make Your First Repository Change. This is an introduction to Subversion, using WANdisco's uberSVN and the trusty Windows client. Download from SVN. (Although you can theoretically download files without Subversion. For the 'URL of repository,' put http://svn.wikimedia.

Prefix The aim of this tutorial is to guide beginners for using svn command line with simple examples. This post is not going to focus on svn installation, as the installation is available anywhere, let me list some links for you in case you are actually looking for installation. Subversion Installation References Installing Subversion (svn) on Linux (Debian Stable) Setting up Subversion and websvn on Debian How To Configure Web Access To Subversion Repositories Using Apache Install SVN with Web Access on Ubuntu. How to create a svn repository?

First of all what is repository? It is a core file for svn, or you can call it a centralized svn backup database. After created it, it is just a directory with its files. Do NOT try to modify or add something into the repository, unless you know what are you doing.

To create a svn repo, let say I wanna create a repo to store all my programming codes, I do this svnadmin create /home/mysurface/repo/programming_repo Remember try to use absolute path for everything, sometimes the relative path is not going to work. How to checkout files from svn repo? This is the most critical part of svn and also the most common part of svn command line. A lots of open source development projects provided the way for user to check out their latest code through the internet. You need to check out in order to commit the changes to svn repo later.

Refers back to the previous post, where I import entire directory /home/mysurface/programming to programming_repo. I am going to checkout to the same folder.

If you are skeptical of doing this, you may want to backup the directory first. Mv programming programming-bk Now checkout to programming, mkdir is not needed, as svn will create the directory for you if it is doesn't exist. Svn co file:///home/mysurface/repo/programming_repo programming co is the shortform of checkout. Okay, lets just compare both folder with diff and store the result into a file comp.diff diff programming programming-bk >comp.diff Diff will list the folder in common, and also the differences. Check comp.diff, as it tracks the additional folder.svn that only exist in programming/.

Again, do NOT modified or delete this folder. Are you convinced to remove your programming-bk/? Make sure you keep the repo safe and you can check out the same data anytime, at any place. You can even checkout only a specific folder from your repo.

Svn co file:///home/mysurface/repo/programming_repo/c/curses This will only check out a folder at current directory. Single file can't be checkout like directories, but you can extract them from repository by svn export svn export file:///home/mysurface/repo/programming_repo/c/curses/matrix.cc. How to track the changes before commit to repo? First of all, you track what files had changed, svn status It will list files which have changed, with some attributes besides the filename. Common attributes are M,?, A M is modified, A is newly added (how to add refers later section),? Indicate the file is added into local directory but not added into repo. Secondly, you want to track the differences between the previous revision and the working one.

Lets assume color.c has changed, svn diff color.c I really don't like svn diff 's result. Fortunately, I found a simple bash script what makes vimdiff as the compare tool. The script was written by Erik C. Sql Antivirus Exceptions there.

Thauvin, you can get it from here. I name it as svndiff and place it at /usr/bin, change the mode to executable. Chmod +x /usr/bin/svndiff Now, I can simply do this, svndiff color.c To close the vimdiff, type:qa. How to check the logs for each revision? The simplest way is doing just, svn log It will list all logs, start from latest revision. That is really irritating!