To find the version of the subversion REPOSITORY you can: Look to the repository on the web and on the bottom of the page it will say something like: “Powered by Subversion version 1.5.2 (r32768).” From the command line: <insert curl, grep oneliner here> If not displayed, view source of the page <svn version=”1.6.13 (r1002816)” … Read more
Short version: $ svn st ! + C foo > local edit, incoming delete upon update ! + C bar > local edit, incoming delete upon update $ touch foo bar $ svn revert foo bar $ rm foo bar If the conflict is about directories instead of files then replace touch with mkdir and … Read more
basename does remove the directory prefix of a path: $ basename /usr/local/svn/repos/example example $ echo “/server/root/$(basename /usr/local/svn/repos/example)” /server/root/example
Open Windows Explorer. Right-click anywhere in the window. Click TortoiseSVN → Settings. Click Saved Data. Click Clear beside Authentication Data (see below). Check the authentication items to clear. Click OK. All saved Authentication Data for all projects is deleted. You will have to re-enter credentials to reconnect.
For additional details see the SVNBook: “Status of working copy files and directories”. The common statuses: U: Working file was updated G: Changes on the repo were automatically merged into the working copy M: Working copy is modified C: This file conflicts with the version in the repo ?: This file is not under version … Read more
SVN is one repo and lots of clients. Git is a repo with lots of client repos, each with a user. It’s decentralised to a point where people can track their own edits locally without having to push things to an external server. SVN is designed to be more central where Git is based on … Read more
You’ve already discovered the simplest way to specify a shallow clone in Git-SVN, by specifying the SVN revision number that you want to start your clone at ( -r$REV:HEAD). For example: git svn clone -s -r1450:HEAD some/svn/repo Git’s data structure is based on pointers in a directed acyclic graph (DAG), which makes it trivial to … Read more
This blog post advises using diff and patch. git stash approximately becomes svn diff > patch_name.patch; svn revert -R . git stash apply becomes patch -p0 < patch_name.patch Note that this doesn’t stash metadata changes or (I think) directory creates/deletes. (Yes, svn tracks those separately from directory contents, unlike git.)
The simple answer is that you svn export the file instead of checking it out. But that might not be what you want. You might want to work on the file and check it back in, without having to download GB of junk you don’t need. If you have Subversion 1.5+, then do a sparse … Read more
Martin Fowler wrote my favorite article on the subject, http://martinfowler.com/articles/evodb.html. I choose not to put schema dumps in under version control as alumb and others suggest because I want an easy way to upgrade my production database. For a web application where I’ll have a single production database instance, I use two techniques: Database Upgrade … Read more