SubVersioN basics

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## Definitions

${REV} # SVN revision number

${URL} # web address of a path in the SVN repository (URL scheme + relative path in the repository)
## URL scheme depends on your role
##- user:        http://forge.ipsl.jussieu.fr/nemo/svn
##- developer svn+ssh://${ID}@forge.ipsl.jussieu.fr/ipsl/forge/projets/nemo/svn

${WCPATH} # Working Copy PATH

Branching/Merging

Create a branch	$ svn copy {${URL},${WCPATH}}[@${REV}] {${URL},${WCPATH}}
Update to a different URL	Mirror a different branch $i.e$ traversing branch in the same repository (hazardous!! ) $ svn switch ${URL}[@${REV}] [${WCPATH}] Relocate to a different URL $i.e$ keep the same branch but move to a new server or URL scheme $ svn switch --relocate ${URL1}[@${REV1}] ${URL2}[@${REV2}]
Merging sources	Apply the differences between two sources to a working copy path $ svn merge {${URL1},${WCPATH1}}[@${REV1}] {${URL1},${WCPATH2}}[@${REV2}] [${WCPATH}]

Manage versioned items

Add/Remove a item (file or folder)	$ svn {add,del} ${WCPATH}
Info / Status / Log	Display information about a local or remote item $ svn info [{${WCPATH},${URL}}][@${REV}] Display the current state of the working path wrt the one mirrored in the repository $ svn status [-[qu]] [${WCPATH}] Display all commits performed to your working path since its creation $ svn log --verbose --stop-on-copy ${WCPATH}
Revert local changes	$ svn revert ${WCPATH}

Manage versioned SVN properties on items

Set properties

svn:keywords: log record of last commit in routine	$ svn propset svn:keywords Id on ${WCPATH}
svn:mime-type: syntax highlighting and merging process
svn:executable: executable permissions of shell scripts	$ svn propset svn:executable on ${WCPATH}
svn:externals: defining external sources	Single external example $ svn propset svn:externals ${URL}[@${REV}] ${WCPATH} Multi externals example using an editor $ svn propedit svn:externals ${WCPATH}

Delete a property

$ svn propdel ${SVN_PROPERTY} ${WCPATH}

Push changes to the repository

$ svn ci [-m 'log message in one line'] items

Then in the appropriate directory

# Commit and write the log message (ticket link #.... and so on) in your editor
$ svn ci files_list
# `svn ci` without files list will commit all modified files recursively from the current directory
# or directly from the command line of the shell session
$ svn ci -m 'log_message' files_list
# Tip: set your editor for SVN for multi-lines commit message
# for sh  and other related shells, interesting to include it in ~/.profile or ~/.bash_profile)
$ export SVN_EDITOR='your_favourite_editor' 
# for csh  "    "      "      ""  ,      "      ""    "    "" "" ~/.login                     )
$ setenv SVN_EDITOR='your_favourite_editor'

Push modified external items from a working copy

Use explicit option with SVN commit command, think that no revision has to be set on related ext def (equivalent to @HEAD)

$ svn ci --include-externals ... 

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With the new layout of the repository, some may encounter downloading or updating issues with

$ svn co -r ${REV} ${URL}

Use instead the more robust syntax

$ svn co ${URL}@${REV}

See ​​http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.7/svn.advanced.REVs.html for more.