subversion

Mac SVN - How to install a Subversion (SVN) server on Mac OS X

Mac SVN FAQ: How do I install Subversion (SVN) on a Mac OS X system?

By Alvin Alexander on October 20, 2012

SVN command examples

SVN commands reference FAQ: Can you share some SVN command examples (an SVN commands cheat sheet)?

I just got SVN (Subversion) installed on my MacBook Pro, so I'm throwing these SVN commands out here as a reminder to myself. This is a list of SVN command examples that can be used from the svn command line client:

By Alvin Alexander on August 6, 2011

svnserve man page

I just got a Subversion (svn) server running on my MacBook Pro, and thought I'd put this svnserve man page out here as reference:

By Alvin Alexander on August 5, 2011

version control

svn status - how to get svn status information

After you've made a few changes in your local SVN sandbox it can be helpful to check the SVN status to see what you've changed, or at least see what SVN thinks you've changed. To do this, just issue the svn status command to see the changes, like this:

svn status

In my case this "svn status" command returned the following information:

A      build.alspc
A      antAlsPC.bat
M      build.xml

 

By Alvin Alexander on August 5, 2011

svn commit command - how to commit changes with svn

Here's a quick example of an svn commit command in what I think is a very typical scenario. Assuming that I just made a few changes to some files in a directory, to commit those changes back to the repository, I just issue an "svn commit" command like this, incuding a nice svn commit message:

svn commit --message "Enabling build processes to support multiple platforms"

(Don't forget -- a good SVN commit message can really help you out later. I find it helps to say both what I did, and why I did it.)

By Alvin Alexander on August 5, 2011

svn checkout command - how to checkout a project with subversion (svn)

Subversion/SVN checkout FAQ: How do I checkout a project with Subversion?

svn checkout command example

I currently work at a consulting company, so we organize our projects first by client, and then by project. So, assuming I have a customer named ACME, and a project named Project1, this svn checkout command (svn co) worked for me:

By Alvin Alexander on August 5, 2011
Syndicate content