Basic Work Cycle in Subversion (SVN) – Overview

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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:

  1. Update your working copy.
    • svn update
  2. Make changes.
    • svn add
    • svn delete
    • svn copy
    • svn move
  3. Examine your changes.
    • svn status
    • svn diff
  4. Possibly undo some changes.
    • svn revert
  5. Resolve conflicts (merge others’ changes).
    • svn update
    • svn resolve
  6. Commit your changes.
    • svn commit
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