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Subversion

SVN, is a versioning software and a revision control system distributed under an open source license.

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Install

# emerge -a dev-vcs/subversion

# pacman -S subversion

# apt install subversion

# yum install subversion

# dnf install subversion

TODO

Config

TODO

Use

  • Check out a working copy from a repository: 

    $ svn checkout http://some_app.code.com/svn/projectname/
$ svn co http://some_app.code.com/svn/projectname/

    • ... With a different username: 
      $ svn checkout --username plop http://some_app.code.com/svn/projectname/

  • Bring changes from the repository into your working copy. Otherwise, it synchronizes the working copy to the revision given by the --revision (-r) option: 

    $ svn update # w/o revision, it brings your working copy up to date with the HEAD
$ svn up -r42 # with revision (-r), it synchronizes the working copy to that revision

  • Print the status of working copy files and directories: 

    $ svn status # prints only localy modified items
$ svn status --show-updates # -u, prints working revision and server out-of-date info
$ svn status --verbose # -v, prints full revision info on everu item
$ svn status --quiet # -q, prints only summary information about local items

  • Add files, directories, or symbolic links in your working copy for addition to the repository: 

    $ svn add test

  • Undo $ svn add (without reverting local edits): 

    $ svn rm --keep-local . # . or * or a file name etc.

  • Delete an item from a working copy or the repository: 

    $ svn delete test0
$ svn remove test1
$ svn del test2
$ svn rm test3

  • revert all modifications to exactly match the repository into your working copy (at the root of the SVN project): 

    $ svn revert --recursive .

  • Send changes from your working copy to the repository: 

    $ svn commit -m "commit with this commit message"
$ svn ci -m "commit with this commit message"

  • Display commit log messages: 

    $ svn log
$ svn log path/to/folder/or/file # to get commit messages associated to an item

  • Show author and revision information inline for the specified file: 

    $ svn blame path/to/file

  • Displays the differences between two revisions or paths: 

    $ svn diff
$ svn di

  • Resolve conflicts on working copy files or directories: After updating, if SVN indicates that a conflict has been discovered, it should be postpone (-p option), than edited in order remove the conflict markers and resolve the conflict. Finally, the resolve command shall be used to inform SVN about the conflict resolution: 

    $ svn resolve --accept=working test # resolution after conflict on file "test"

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