June 2004
Intermediate to advanced
319 pages
12h 58m
English
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Basic Work Cycle
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Every directory in a working copy contains an administrative area, a
subdirectory named .svn. Usually, directory listing commands won’t
show this subdirectory, but it is nevertheless an important directory.
Whatever you do, don’t delete or change anything in the administra-
tive area! Subversion depends on it to manage your working copy.
While you can certainly check out a working copy with the URL of the repository as
the only argument, you can also specify a directory after your repository URL. This
places your working copy into a new directory that you name. For example:
$ svn checkout http://svn.collab.net/repos/svn/trunk subv
A subv/subversion.dsw
A subv/svn_check.dsp
A subv/COMMITTERS
A subv/configure.in
A subv/IDEAS
...
Checked out revision 2499.
That will place your working copy in a directory named subv instead of a directory
named
trunk, as we did previously.
Basic Work Cycle
Subversion has numerous features, options, bells, and whistles, but on a day-to-day
basis, odds are that you will only use a few of them. In this section we run through
the most common things that you might find yourself doing with Subversion in the
course of a day’s work.
The typical work cycle looks like this:
• Update your working copy
•
svn update
• Make changes
•
svn add
• svn delete
• svn copy ...
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