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Using svn

svn can be handy, but in my opinion not as handy as git. On certain occasions svn has the bad habit of messing up the database and checksum, and it looks like the best solution is then to delete the local repository and checkout from the start.

NOTE: Some repositories are possible to access from the browser. Just be aware that a commit to the repository is done, it is sometimes necessary to close and re-open the browser in order to see the changes.

NOTE: There exists "collection" of repositories, which you cannot check out from, for example https://svn.something.dk/ may be a collection which cannot be checked out from, whereas https://svn.something.dk/username is a repository which can be checked out from.

NOTE: svn works essentially differently than git. In order for svn to understand what you are doing, you have to add svn in front of everything you do. For example if from.txt, mv from.txt to.rxt will move the file around on your file system, but svn will not catch this, and will usually complain that the file is not found if you try to commit. In order for svn to understand, the command will be svn mv from.txt to.rxt

Setting up with vim

To change the editor, you can add the following to the .bashrc file

export SVN_EDITOR=vim

To change the svn diff, have a look at

http://blog.tplus1.com/blog/2007/08/29/how-to-use-vimdiff-as-the-subversion-diff-tool/

The difference between reversion 9 and 10 will can then be found by

svn diff -r 9:10 myfile.txt

Checking out a repository

This will "download" the repository

  1. Make the dir you would like to put the repository in
  2. Checkout with svn co <repository> <folder>
    • If you want to check out to this folder, the <folder> will simply be .

Example

svn co https://svn.something.dk/user/cool-codes/ .

NOTE: The <folder> is sensitive with respect to spaces, meaning that a folder named my folder, should be renamed to my_folder in order to use it with svn.

Daily use

After downloading from repository, the daily use of svn (at least in my case) goes like this

svn up && svn ci -m "message"

where svn up is short for svn update, which update the repository, and svn ci is short for svn commit, which commits the changes. -m "message" is the commit message, and && is the logical and operator

Working directly with repositories

One can use the standard syntax

svn move <from repository> <to repository>
svn mkdir https://svn.something.dk/user/newFolder

It is also possible to import files directly into repositories

svn import folder https://svn.something.dk/user/folder
svn import file.txt https://svn.something.dk/user/folder/file.txt