After successful installation, execute the svn -version ~]$ su ~]# yum install ~]$ svn -versionĪnd if you are using Debian-based GNU/Linux, then use apt command for sudo apt-get update If you are using RPM-based GNU/Linux, then use yum command for installation. If Subversion client is not installed, then command will report error, otherwise it will display the version of the installed ~]$ svn -version To check whether it is installed or not use following ~]$ svn -version It comes by default with most of the GNU/Linux distributions, so it might be already installed on your system.
It is open-source and available for free over the internet. Subversion is a popular open-source version control tool. Either the whole commit succeeds or is rolled back. Other developers can retrieve these changes by updating their working copy. After commit, changes are made available to all the team. The working copy is a private workplace where developers can do their work remaining isolated from the rest of the team.Ĭommit changes: Commit is a process of storing changes from private workplace to central server. Instead each developer checks out the working copy. The repository is shared by all the teams, but people do not modify it directly. Working copy: Working copy is a snapshot of the repository. For example, when you release version 5.0, you might want to create a branch so that development of 6.0 features can be kept separate from 5.0 bug-fixes. It is useful when you want your development process to fork off into two different directions.
Repository UUID: 7ceef8cb-3799-40dd-a067-c216ec2e5247 andīranches: Branch operation is used to create another line of development. Tag operation allows to give descriptive and memorable names to specific version in the repository.įor example, LAST_STABLE_CODE_BEFORE_EMAIL_SUPPORT is more memorable than Tags : The tags directory is used to store named snapshots of the project. Trunk: The trunk is a directory where all the main development happens and is usually checked out by developers to work on the project. By storing changes, a client makes these changes available to other people and by retrieving changes, a client takes other people's changes as a working copy. Clients can connect to the repository, and then they can store/retrieve their changes to/from repository. Repository is accessed over a network, acting as a server and version control tool acting as a client. Repository not only stores files but also the history. It is the central place where developers store all their work. Repository: A repository is the heart of any version control system. Let us start by discussing some of the terms that we will be using in this tutorial. Subversion falls under centralized version control system, meaning that it uses central server to store all files and enables team collaboration. In this tutorial, we will concentrate only on the Centralized Version Control System and especially Subversion. Distributed/Decentralized Version Control System (DVCS).Centralized Version Control System (CVCS), and.Maintain history of every version of everything.Allow developers to work simultaneously.
Version Control System (VCS) is a software that helps software developers to work together and maintain a complete history of their work.įollowing are the goals of a Version Control System. That's because a merge back is a more complicated algorithm, if the branch contains further updates (merges) from the original line of code.ĥ) Follow the procedure and in the textbox "merge from" type:Ħ) Now your local copy is merged and you just need to commit it.SVN Basic Concepts What is Version Control System?
(if file A B have revisions 4 and 5, doing a general update you may get revisions 6 and 6)ģ) Right click the project and select team->merge.Ĥ) Select "Reintegrate a branch" if you are going to merge to trunk or "URL" if you are going to merge from trunk or from an other branch. This because you need to have the same revision for all the files. This is the procedure to merge the branch back into the main line of code:ġ) Checkout the project from the main line of code, the one from which the branch was initially created.Ģ) Right click the project and select team->update. Now you are working on the new branch created.Ħ) Do the changes required and commit all. Svn://localhost/myrep/branches/bridge_branch_1Ĥ) Right click the project again and select team->switch_to_another_branch_tag_revisionĥ) Follow the wizard and in the textbox "To URL" type again: This is the procedure to create a new branch:ġ) Open the perspective "SVN repository exploring" and create the folder "branches".Ģ) Right click on your Eclipse project and select team->branch/tag.ģ) Follow the wizard and in the textbox "copy to URL" write something like this: