Quick Tips: Absolute SVN (subversion) basics.

20 05 2009

The very basic after installing SVN on your computer is to perform
CASE 1: In case you want to use svn offline.
1.svnadmin create /directory/path
NOTE:assuming you were working on some code copy the code to the svn directory.
2. cd /directory/path
3. “svn add .” OR “svn add –force .”
4. svn commit -m ” commit message”

CASE 2: In case you want to use svn with some online repository.
1.svn co http://path (enter username and password if prompted).
NOTE: do STEP 1 even if the SVN repo at the URL is empty
2.copy the files or directories to the Checked Out(svn co …..) directory
3.same as above.
4.same as above.

regards.

kunalghosh
(kunal ghosh)





Quick TIp: Resume svn check outs

20 05 2009

I’ve had power outages while doing svn checkouts ( method to get a local copy of source code on an online repository ), so to resume the checkout, cd to the svn working directory and issue “svn up” (without ” “) to resume the checkout.





Please tune in for my next article on Practical Source Code Management

10 02 2009

I have currently learnt the use of source code management and am using SVN for my CFF (Code For Freedom) Project which is related to creating a GUI for their Distro Constructor Application to create custom spin offs of openSOLARIS 2008.11 if you are wondering what openSOLARIS is !! head  to www.opensolaris.com for more info.

Its got some pretty cool features too !! I can bet you wouldn’t have seen those features before !