Basic Work Cycle in Subversion (SVN)
Subversion has numerous features, options, bells, and whistles, but on a day-to-day basis, odds are that you will use only a few of them. In this artile, we’ll run through the most common things that you might find yourself doing with Subversion in the course of a day’s work.
The typical work cycle looks like this:
- Update your working copy.
- svn update
- Make changes.
- svn add
- svn delete
- svn copy
- svn move
- Examine your changes.
- svn status
- svn diff
- Possibly undo some changes.
- svn revert
- Resolve conflicts (merge others’ changes).
- svn update
- svn resolve
- Commit your changes.
- svn commit