Version Control with Subversion

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CHAPTER 3

Guided Tour

Now we go into the details of using Subversion. By the time you reach the end of this

chapter, you will be able to perform almost all the tasks you need to use Subversion

in a normal day’s work. You’ll start with an initial checkout of your code, and walk

through making changes and examining those changes. You’ll also see how to bring

changes made by others into your working copy, examine them, and work through

any conflicts that might arise.

Note that this chapter is not meant to be an exhaustive list of all Subversion’s com-

mands—rather, it’s a conversational introduction to the most common Subversion

tasks you’ll encounter. This chapter assumes that you’ve read and understood

Chapter 2 and are familiar with the general model of Subversion. For a complete ref-

erence of all commands, see Chapter 9.

Help!

Before reading on, here is the most important command you’ll need when using Sub-

version:

svn help. The Subversion command-line client is self-documenting—at any

time, a quick

svn help <subcommand> will describe the syntax, switches, and behavior

of the

subcommand.

Import

You use svn import to import a new project into a Subversion repository. While this

is most likely the very first thing you will do when you set up your Subversion server,

it’s not something ...