Version Control with Subversion

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Chapter 9: Subversion Complete Reference

--password PASS

--no-auth-cache

--non-interactive

--config-dir DIR

Examples

If you’re currently inside the directory vendors which was branched to vendors-with-fix and

you’d like to switch your working copy to that branch:

$ svn switch http://svn.red-bean.com/repos/branches/vendors-with-fix .

U myproj/foo.txt

U myproj/bar.txt

U myproj/baz.c

U myproj/qux.c

Updated to revision 31.

And to switch back, just provide the URL to the location in the repository from which you

originally checked out your working copy:

$ svn switch http://svn.red-bean.com/repos/trunk/vendors .

U myproj/foo.txt

U myproj/bar.txt

U myproj/baz.c

U myproj/qux.c

Updated to revision 31.

You can just switch part of your working copy to a branch if you don’t

want to switch your entire working copy.

If the location of your repository changes and you have an existing working copy that

you’d like to continue to use, you can use

svn switch --relocate to change your working

copy from one URL to another:

$ svn checkout file:///tmp/repos test

A test/a

A test/b

...

$ mv repos newlocation

$ cd test/

$ svn update

svn: Unable to open an ra_local session to URL

svn: Unable to open repository 'file:///tmp/repos'

$ svn switch --relocate file:///tmp/repos file:///tmp/newlocation .

$ svn update

At revision 3.

svn update ...