Version Control with Subversion

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Repository Maintenance

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As you can see in the previous example, multiple commands may be specified at a

single command prompt, separated by a semicolon. Also, the shell understands the

notions of relative and absolute paths, and will properly handle the

. and .. special

path components.

The

youngest command displays the youngest revision. This is useful for determining

the range of valid revisions you can use as arguments to the

setrev command—you

are allowed to browse all the revisions (recalling that they are named with integers)

between 0 and the youngest, inclusively. Determining the valid browsable transac-

tions isn’t quite as pretty. Use the

lstxns command to list the transactions that you

are able to browse. The list of browsable transactions is the same list that

svnadmin

lstxns

returns, and the same list that is valid for use with svnlook’s --transaction

option.

Once you’ve finished using the shell, you can exit cleanly by using the

exit com-

mand. Alternatively, you can supply an end-of-file character—Control-D (though

some Win32 Python distributions use the Windows Control-Z convention instead).

Berkeley DB utilities

All of your versioned filesystem’s structure and data live in a set of Berkeley DB data-

base tables within the db subdirectory of your repository. This subdirectory ...