[vlc-devel] a few SVN tips
Sam Hocevar
sam at zoy.org
Sat Mar 6 18:05:58 CET 2004
Here are a few tips about Subversion usage that I gathered. If you
have your own useful tips, feel free to contribute to this thread.
* repository layout
There are three directories at the root: trunk, branches, tags. The
trunk directory is similar to the HEAD branch in CVS: it contains the
most recent vlc tree. The branches and tags directories contains copies
of the trunk at different times.
Never download a full svn tree! It would download several hundreds of
megabytes. Instead, only get the trunk directory, like that:
$ svn co svn://svn.videolan.org/trunk vlc-trunk
If you need a specific branch or tag, (eg. branch 0.2), use this:
$ svn co svn://svn.videolan.org/branches/0.2 vlc-0.2
If you need to know which branches are available, use "svn ls":
$ svn ls svn://svn.videolan.org/branches/
0.2
0.2.92
0.4.1
$
* moving files
No longer create new files from scratch when moving files! Use "svn mv":
$ svn mv file1 file2
It also works for entire directories.
* splitting files
Do not create a new file from scratch! Instead, copy the old file
using "svn cp", remove the old file and modify both newly created files:
$ svn cp old new1
$ svn cp old new2
$ svn delete old
[edit new1 and new2]
$ svn commit
* getting information about locally modified files
Use "svn status" to know which files were modified, deleted or
created. A network connection is not needed for that, do not use "svn
update" just to know your local modifications.
"svn diff" does not require a network connection either if you only
want to show your local modifications.
* .cvsignore
There is no filesystem equivalent to .cvsignore. Instead, metadata
are used. To edit the ignore list for a given directory, use this:
$ svn propedit svn:ignore mydirectory
* $Id:
$Id is no longer automatically taken in account; instead, it has to
be activated in a per-file basis using properties:
$ svn propedit svn:keywords myfile
Just add "Id" to the list of properties.
--
Sam.
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