Contents

• 1 Introduction
  • 1.1 Branching patterns
  • 1.2 Donate Your Changes
  
  
• 2 Subversion usage rules
• A. Common operations
  • A..1 Setting up a repository
  • A..2 Handing over control to subversion
  • A..3 Initial checkout of a project
  • A..4 Set up of editor to use for log messages
  • A..5 Undoing changes
  • A..6 Undoing svn add (and svn delete)
  • A..7 Resurrecting deleted items
  • A..8 How do I make subversion ignore items when issuing svn status
  • A..9 Can I add a symbolic link to subversion control
  • A..10 Creating a branch
  • A..11 Porting changes between branches
  • A..12 Merging a stable branch into the main trunk
  • A..13 Keeping a feature branch in sync
  • A..14 Merging a feature branch into the main trunk
  • A..15 Removing a branch
  • A..16 Creating a tag I
  • A..17 Creating a tag II
  • A..18 How to list the set of tags in a project
  • A..19 Help, my favourite repository has moved
  • A..20 Change trac ticket status through commit log messages
  
  
• B. Subversion related commands
• C. svn sub-commands
• D. Item properties
• E. Repository side stuff
  • E..1 Setting up a repository
  • E..2 Administrator enforced repository layout
  • E..3 Adding a post-commit hook to a repository
  
  
• F. Configuration options

This document aims at giving developers a very short introduction to version control systems in general, and subversion in particular. Most of the material is collected from the book “Version Control with Subversion.” To be honest, many sentences and paragraphs in this documents are outright stolen from the subversion book.

For a more detailed introduction to revision control systems and its concepts, refer to the subversion book.

This document is also available in PDF and Postscript