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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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47Working Directly with the Repository

Most of the time you should make changes to a Subversion working copy and then commit those changes to the repository. This gives you a chance to think about the changes, revert unwanted or erroneous modifications, and even run a build to make sure everything works before you commit. There are times, though, when you might want to work directly with the repository. For some Subversion commands, you can use a repository URL instead of referring to working copy files.

You can copy, move, rename, and delete items directly in the repository. You might want to do this if the files are large and would take a long time to manipulate in a working copy. You might also want to do this if you recently imported a ...

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