9 Oct 2007
Subversion Cheatsheet
- See also: svn command line tutorial for beginners 1
- Notes from: Version Control with Subversion
- Tsavo’s great svn cheatsheet
Quickstart
sudo aptitude install subversion
svnserve -d
Create source project, splitting into trunk, tags and branches (latter 2 directories initially empty).
project is a dummy name that is just used to build repo, so actually use the name project, original is the name of the original code directory.
mkdir -p project/{trunk,tags,branches}
mv ~/original ~/project/trunk
Using trunk/tags/branches for a small project is overkill – tags and branches can be added later. Therefore for a small project, just do:
mkdir -p project
mv ~/original ~/project
Create subversion repository:
cd
svnadmin create svnrepo
Import project into repository, and archive original data:
svn import project file:///home/sonia/svnrepo -m “initial import”
mv project /tmp
After the repo is setup, you’ll probably want to add other directories eg to import projectb:
svn import projectb file:///home/sonia/svnrepo/trunk/projectb -m “initial import”
mv projectb /tmp
Checkout a working copy:
svn checkout file:///home/sonia/svnrepo/trunk original
Make changes to working copy, then get a list of changes:
svn status –show-updates –verbose foo
svn diff
Finally, save changes back to repository:
svn commit
Or, cancel some changes:
svn revert foo
Repository URLS
file:///
http://
https://
svn://
svn+ssh://
Get Help
svn help foo
Other Common Tasks
- ignoring files svn propedit svn:ignore targetdir (see”Ignoring Unversioned Items”)
- to always ignore files of type x (eg .mp3), edit ~/.subversion/config or /etc/subversion/config and set global-ignores under [miscellany] (see Runtime Configuration Area).