Quick info on Subversion / SVN

Sun Mar 18 10:20:38 EDT 2007

SVN is a lot better than CVS, and I strongly recommend that you use it.
The SVN book is available for reading online and free download, and
although it's a bit long as an introduction, it is definitely worth
studying.

	http://svnbook.red-bean.com/nightly/en/svn-book.html

If you just want to get started, this sequence worked once for me:

	mkdir proj.dir
	svnadmin create repository
	svn import proj.dir file:///fullpath/to/repository -m 'initial repository'
		# file:// is mandatory here but is an error on previous
	svn checkout file:///fullpath/to/repository proj.dir
		# sometimes removes previous contents: backup first
	cd proj.dir
	start creating files...
	svn add whatever
		# to add files
	svn commit
		# to update repository


The SVN book and Matt Plough's guide
	www.cs.princeton.edu/courses/archive/spring07/cos333/plough.svn.pdf
	
both talk about how a group can use SVN so that you don't trip over each
other and also about how to use an SVN server over a network connection.

The following suggestion from Jeff Bagdis is the most compact and
easiest that I have seen thus far for network use.  If you have a
subversion repository on one of the public CS servers (e.g. bolle) in
the path /u/you/svn, created by typing

	$ svnadmin create /u/you/svn

you can checkout from this repository from anywhere by this:

	$ svn co svn+ssh://you@bolle.cs.princeton.edu/u/you/svn proj.dir

You need to specify the full path to the repository on the remote host.
This also works with OIT systems like hats.