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Pragmatic Guide to Subversion
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Pragmatic Guide to Subversion

by Mike Mason
November 2010
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
150 pages
2h 55m
English
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8Seeing What You’ve Changed

Subversion keeps track of files in your working copy and will detect any changes you make. You can see which files or directories you’ve changed and even see exactly what has changed within each file. As a programmer, it’s easy to get confused about what changes you have made once you’re halfway through a feature, and Subversion can help keep you on track.

The status command tells Subversion to scan all the files in your working copy to see whether they’ve changed. Subversion uses some tricks to make this process faster, but it still has to look at each file to see whether it has changed. The scan might take a while if you have lots of files in your working copy. If you know that you’ve been working in only one ...

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