Using Subversion

How To Use Subversion:

svn-14: Getting help on subversion

Getting help:

$ svn --help

svn-15: Creating a checkout directory

Create a checkout directory (e.g. /home/user/SVN):

$ mkdir SVN

svn-01: Checkout a working copy

Check out a new repository (e.g. eAthena SVN stable branch):

where URL is currently http://svn.eathena.ws/svn/ea/branches/stable

$ cd SVN $ svn co URL

Note: If you do checkout from your home without first creating the directory, you will get a directory called stable created automatically. Adjust the command to suit your situation.

svn-10: Updating a working copy

Update an existing repository (same example):

$ cd SVN/stable $ svn up

svn-16: Updating to a specific revision

Update an existing repository to a revision (same example):

where number is the revision number

$ cd SVN/stable $ svn up -r <number>

svn-02: Getting revision number of a working copy

Getting revision number of source codes:

$ cd SVN/stable $ svn info

Changing repository (rewriting URL):

where URL-old is the existing URL and URL-new the new URL

$ svn switch --relocate URL-old URL-new

Committing all the existant changes to the repository:

where <message> is the commit message in double quotes. (Note: This is only useful to persons with commit access.)

$ cd SVN/stable $ svn commit -m <message>

Q&A

Is there a GUI subversion client?

Yes. You can visit Tigris.org and fetch WebSVN from their repository or search your distro installation media for rapidsvn. The former is a PHP web-based client while the latter a Linux package.