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Check in/out src/dat/doc using Subversion (svn)

by Kuiyu Chang — last modified Aug 25, 2008 04:42 PM

Install SVN

Download & install SVN client.
Configure SVN. Important if your web-access is censored by a http proxy.
cd to local drive path:
```
    cd ~/mylocalcopy
```
List what is available in the repository (also viewable through a browser at the same URL or via the trac interface):
```
   svn list https://svn.mosuma.com/r4000/
```

Checkout a specify part of the repository to your local path using your research.mosuma.com userid:
- for normal projects (small development):
```
      svn checkout --username youruserid https://svn.mosuma.com/r4000/proj/{projname}
```
- for larger projects with 3 special directories trunk, tags, branches:
```
     svn checkout --username youruserid https://svn.mosuma.com/r4000/proj/{projname}/trunk projname
```
- Make sure you don't check out the project itself without specifying the trunk (if there is one). See svn book notes
  - trunk stores the main line of development work
  - tags stores frozen snapshots of your work
  - branches is for different forks/variations of your development, usually when another person wants to branch/fork off from your work (not usually required here, except for mega projects). See faq entry on branching and merging
Make changes to your local copy by adding/deleting/modifying files. You can check the status of your local files viz-a-viz the repository by:
```
     svn status
```
For each new file you added/deleted, tell the repository, anywhere within your checked out local copy, do e.g:
```
   svn add newfile
   svn add *
   svn del oldfile
```
Do an update:
```
   svn update
```

Update the repository by committing your changes to it:

    svn -m "type some log information here" commit

directly import a local directory into svn, use:

     svn -m "direct importing some stuff" import path_to_local_directory https://svn.mosuma.com/r9999/dat/newly_created_directory

do direct operations on the repository by specifying the full URL:

     svn -m "making directory" mkdir http://svn.mosuma.com/r9999/newdirectory

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