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Subversion Quick Reference Guide (Essentials)

johnnysthoughts.com — A quick reference guide to using the wonderful Subversion source control. Shows the most used syntax with examples for each command.

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  • carotids, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Sweet! Thanks.
  • negativefx, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Rock.

    Although Tortoise does make this all a whole lot easier...dugg anyway
    • krouskop, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I actually very much prefer SVN-ing from the command line over using Tortoise SVN. Especially for things like branching and merging.
    • negativefx, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0You're right...branch/merge is a little messy on the UI.
  • rmch, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Don't forget

    svn switch
    svn propedit svn:externals .

    I have to plug the svn:externals functionality. It's a really great feature :)
  • blueZhift, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2I usually only interact with Subversion in Eclipse via the Subversion plugin, but this is nice for those times I have to use the command line. Thanks!
  • spliznork, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1What?! No "svn switch" or "svn merge" to compliment the mention of "svn copy"? Those commands make working with branches an absolute pleasure.
    • hackwrench, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1svn smash!
    • johnnythawte, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Thanks for that, I'll update the article with those two commands. I don't personally use them all that often, so that's why they didn't end up there.

      I've made a bunch of quick reference guides, they are mostly to help me, but if they help other people too, then great. =)
  • blobdole, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0I am going to add a comment here for all those people who saw just the headline on their feed and were hoping for something about the basics of manipulation and trickery.

    "Wha?"
  • dpk87, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3svn > cvs

    dugg
  • joel2600, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2does anyone know of a similar guide for cvs.

    yes i know svn is "better", however i'm stuck with cvs at work
  • happyhappyhappy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2If you fell in love with Tortoise, then I highly recommend checking out Meld.

    Here is the home page:
    http://meld.sourceforge.net

    Here is a mini wikipedia article with a screenshot:
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meld_%28software%29

    and if you are using Ubuntu/Debian, just type:
    sudo apt-get install meld

    I only found meld after learning to use the command line, but I still like to use it because it has a great built-in diff viewer.
    • krouskop, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1TortoiseSVN already has a bult in graphical merge tool ... and for most tasks, I'll take a standard command line diff any day...
    • happyhappyhappy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I meant if you have moved from windows to linux, and miss tortoise.
  • krouskop, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1you could constantly reference this ... or just do "svn help" at the command line and then "svn help "
  • statmobile, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Nice and thorough, but I always prefered the reference cards in pdf format for quick reference. There are some great ones for Emacs, C, LaTeX, etc. at:
    http://refcards.com

    Here is the one I use for subversion
    http://www.cs.put.poznan.pl/csobaniec/Papers/svn-refcard.pdf

  • BenSlade, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1But it's copyrighted. Don't you want to make this an open source item? Maybe you really wanted to use one of the creative commons (creativecommons.org) "some rights reserved" notices.
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