Mastering Subversion

Introduction to Subversion

• What is Subversion?
• Subversion, a centralized source code manager
• Centralized architecture
• Access protocols : svn, http + dav, svn + ssh et file
• Repositories' naming conventions
• Incremental revisions
• Differences between repositories and working copies

Subversion installation

• Subversion repository initialization
• The svnadmin command
• Create a typical Subversion repository
• The svn list command
• Apache configuration with Mod DAV
• Repository's protection with an HTTP authentication
• Credentials management: groups and permissions

Discovering the Subversion client

• The command line interface svn
• Get help with the svn help command
• List available commands

Basic workflows

• Work copy initialization
• Add, edit and delete file from the repository
• Update your working copy
• Commit modifications to the repository
• List pending files to commit
• Get log informations on a file
• Get the differential between two revisions

Advanced worflows

• Copy versioned files
• Move versioned files
• Rename versioned files
• Delete versioned files
• Tag a specific code version

Get information from your files

• The svn status command
• Understanding the svn status's output
• Being able to identify problems
• Getting all changesets with the svn log command
• Understanding the svn log's output
• Using the svn blame command

Conflicts and locks

• Understanding conflicts
• Why conflicts happen?
• Resolve files conflicts
• Understanding locks
• Lock your files
• Unlock your files

Subversion properties

• Discovering SVN properties
• Define, edit and delete properties
• Adding third party dependencies with svn:externals
• Ignoring files with the svn:ignore property
• Working copy's properties listing

Branching and merging

• Understanding branching
• Typical branching workflows
• Creating extra branches
• Switching to another branch
• Understanding the branches merging process
• Merging two branches
• Advanced branches merging with the svnmerge utility

Tips, tricks and management tools

• Restoring a broken working copy
• Understanding the svn cleanup command
• Usefull commands and third party tools to know
• Subversion client for Windows: TortoiseSVN
• Projects manager: TRAC
• IDEs plugins: Subclipse et Subversive