Subversion and Tortoise Training

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Subversion and TortoiseTraining

• April 7th and 10th, 2006
• Brian Rennick

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What is Subversion?

• A version control system, successor to CVS
• Manages files and directories over time
• Maintains files and directories in a central
  repository
• Can manage any collection of files, including
  source code
• Also known as SVN

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What is TortoiseSVN?

• A client for Subversion
• A shell extension, integrated into Windows
  Explorer
• Right-click in Windows Explorer to bring up the
  context menu

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Work Cycle

• Update your working copy (svn update)
• Make changes
• Examine your changes (svn status, diff)
• Merge others changes into your working copy (svn
  update, resolved)
• Commit your changes (svn commit)

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Directories and Files

• Commands can be performed on directories or
  individual files
• Directory level operations cascade to
  subdirectories and files
• Base files are cached locally in .svn directories

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Revision Numbers

• Incremented with each commit
• Commands use --revision (-r) switch
• Keywords head, base, committed, prev
• Range --revision 123999
• Dates --revision 2006-12-31

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Branches and Tags

• Cheap copy
• Tags and Revision Numbers
• Used for deployment tagging
• Patching

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Merging Others Changes

• What if different people make concurrent changes
  to the same file?
• svn status -show-updates shows potential
  conflicts
• svn update creates temporary files or merges
• svn resolved allows commit to proceed

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SVN/Tortoise Translation
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Repository Configuration

• https//svn.umr.edu/user/userid
• conf/access
• conf/notify-list
• Password cache

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Initial Checkout

• Create test and production directories on the
  server
• Create directories in the repository svn mkdir
• Checkout from repository to server svn checkout
• Files in server directories are not modified by
  initial checkout
• Do not import

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Reference

• http//svnbook.red-bean.com
• http//subversion.tigris.org
• http//tortoisesvn.tigris.org
• svn command --help
• TortoiseSVN Help
• https//syswiki.cc.umr.edu/bin/view/Applications/S
  ubVersion

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Old Environment
Subversion Repository
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New Environment
Subversion Repository