Ayman Hourieh

Version Control, is an essential tool in software engineering, so good for you to switch into this organized programming world, no lost versions anymore, no overwritten version either. I use CVS, i've heard that SVN is better, but CVS is more popular "as far as i know", and i started with CVS first. I do basic management of my source, no branches and stuff, so i'll stick to CVS. Anyway, nice tutorial.

btw, its also nice to use Trac (http://www.edgewall.com/trac/) with svn for collaborative projects.

It's a nice little tutorial. Just one remark. I think it's a better idea to create repositories on per project basis, this way you will have separate numbering for different projects. Anyway it's a very useful summary.

Very well written. I am setting up my repository now. Thanks for the help

Dear all,

I'm only just getting started with version control and I chose subversion with TortoiseSVN for my needs. I had thought about doing repositories per project, too, but somehow I feel like this is not intended. Does anyone know where to start reading about repository-layout and whether it's a good or bad idea to do this on a per-project approach or rather do repositories for a single group of developers or whatever?

Any help on this would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks, Pelle.

Very neatly written and useful for lazy people like me. Using svn after just reading this single page.

Thanks ;-)

Thanks Ayman for this simple yet powerful tutorial

Thanks for the simple version of setting this up.

Well written totorial. Thanks

i have installed Subversion in Ubuntu but how do i access it from WinXp.

Thanks for putting this together. A very clean, concise guide to setting up a simple versioning system. I was up and running in under 15 minutes.

Don't know why anyone would want to use a command prompt and not the context menu (assuming you're using windows) to do all this above. Same with using Visual SVN Server. Command prompt is sooo tedious.

This is a great piece of work - I linked to it in my article on using Subversion for LaTeX files.

I'm using:

Subversion command-line client, version 1.4.6

svn compare -r R1:R2 [filename]

did not work for me :(

Unknown command: 'compare'

svn diff -r 1:2 filename

worked fine.

I'd also add

svn log filename

It shows you the revision numbers

Thanks for the tutorial!

I'd give you 3 thumbs up if I could...

Thanks for this short and to the point article... Many thanks,

Having just installed Subversion today it's great to find such a useful quick start guide.

Version checking is something new to me, and since SVN seems to be the industry standard, I thought I should get to grips with it as soon as possible.

Thanks for sharing!

Just wanted to say thanks for this... I've been tearing my hair out trying to get this working and set up with my svn client; so much of the documentation/forum-responses have been useless... very nicely done.

For any other folks using this approach to set up the repo, and are looking to use Tortoise, or Versions, or some other GUI to access it, I was getting hung up on finding the right URL to direct the client to... turns out it was ssh login plus the absolute path from the server root down to the svn project directory

e.g., svn+ssh://username@testsite.com/home/domains/xyz.com/html/svn/my_proj

Thanks for posting this article.

I'm trying to learn SVN and am having trouble connecting to a remote SVN server I've recently setup on a Windows machine.

I've created a repository on the server with the following full path: C:svntest_repository.

When I try to create a project directory in the repository using

"svn mkdir http://mySvnServer.myDomain/svn/test_repository/new_project" It returns an http "200 OK" message but no directory ever gets created on the server.

If I try to do an initial import of a project I get a similar result.

"svn import http://mysvnserver.myDomain/c$/test_repository" returns the message "svn: OPTIONS of 'http://mysvnserver.myDomain/c$/svn/test_repository': 200 OK (http://mysvnserver.myDomain) which appears to be OK, except that when I go to the server and check to see if the project directory was created, I find that it has not.

Thanks so much for the tutorial, it clarified some of the conceptions I had about this neat little program.

Thank you very much...Good summary.

At first, a very sincere THANK YOU Ayman!one-eleven!

I got subversion up und running in a few minutes.

Al: If you want to access SVN via Studio .net (2005 and Successors) you may be interested in Ankh svn. It works very fine for me.

You may need to tune your authz and passwd files in the svn Root:

http://groups.google.de/group/Subversion-SVN/browse_thread/thread/ebd14b999b67e458

Hi, and thanks for this tutorial. However I was unable to get It work: $ svn mkdir file:///home/ayman/svn/myproj Subversion will open your default text editor and ask you to enter a log message. Enter an explanation of what you're doing, save, and exit the editor. It saves a .tmp file and does not create any directory

svn import file:///home/.... Creates second .tmp file ()

I gave up.... I am sure it is a great toy, but ....for insiders only.

Thank you!

Nice Tutorial. We can learn and do it in matter of 10mins. Thanks Author.

hi all,

I'm a new user for the Visual SVN. I'm using Visual SVN free version and tortoise SVN as client in windows xp environment. I use these configuration for a PHP project. so what i do is visualSVN and xampp install in a same computer and make a make a client environment in side of the xampp root folder using tortoise SVN. now what i want is automatically update the client inside the xampp when somebody comment to the Repository

I tried lot with hook script like fallow

"C:/Program Files/VisualSVN Server/bin/svn.exe" update "H:/WEB SERVER/xampp/htdocs/WEBSERVER/" but it not succeed. and no error message.

please help me to achieve my target.

thanks all, Nayana Adassuriya

It would make more sense to checkout the project I want to work on using: svn checkout file:///home/ayman/svn/myproj instead of svn checkout file:///home/ayman/svn which would checkout each and every project in the repository?

When I import my project files into the repository "svn import myproj file:///home/ayman/svn/myproj", "myproj" is still not the working copy. How can I tell svn that I want "myproj" to be the working copy?

Currently I have to delete "myproj" and then again checkout "myproj", but I hope there is a simple way of making the original "myproj" working copy.

Simple, yet this the kind of article that really helps people set up their first repository in no time.

Thank you, your contribution goes beyond quick help. --Avi

Thanks for good tutorial, good job.

I just have a question related to the subvertion security, how to manage user which could read and write the repository content? How to set passwords? thanks.

Thanks!!! This is a great and useful tuto...

Thanks a lot!!! This is really quick and helpful quide..

I I m preparing for my exam and SVN is part of course so i want a short tutorial on svn that can help to answer the exam questions. . . It really helped

Just one thing that i still want to know is what is 'source safe' and what is the command for it?

Thank you very much for the concise tutorial. It was VERY helpful.

The compare part did not work for me, but it's just use diff instead.

But I'm with Grinkin on using svn log =p

Excellent tutorial. I have never tried SVN and this tutorial is good enough that let me install it and use it in my projects.

I've been looking into SVN for a few hours now, this is by far the cleanest tutorial!

Thank you! This was well-explained and very helpful. One clarification that might be helpful is to tell the user where the revision numbers can be found, before telling them to use them, namely, when you describe

svn compare -r R1:R2

I think the command is

svn log

but there may be a better way.

Thanks again!

Awesome tutorial. One thing. I'm using eclipse for the GUI check-in/out features of subversion. I have a middleware server that'll communicate with the subversion client which then talks to the subversion server. What's the syntax to specify the URL for the subversion repository in unix? Anyone knows, please share. Much appreciated it. Thanks.

thanxxxxx

Thanks! It was very useful!

Saved me a lot of pain going through the 450 pages of the manual, thx mate.

Great Tutorial explains the product to the new users.

thanks