Wyefronts

I have just started to use subversion for version control. It’s been pretty problematic to start with but I think I have cracked it now. I haven’t read the manual properly, I just dipped in now and then when I needed to. So here for future reference is how to create a repository and working copy.

1. shh in to the server with SVN on it.
2. go to the directory where SVN resides in my case /mnt/bigdisk/subversion.
3. use the command svnadmin create project_name, so that I know that this is a repository I always name the directory like this svn_projectname.
4. once you have the repository set up you need to do a SVN import like this; svn import path/to/project/files file:///repository_name/project -m “First Import”.
5. You will now see the terminal spin whilst importing all of the files.
6. Then go to you SVN client and do a SVN checkout.
7. you now have a working copy to play with change files and add them when you have a fixed bit of the site.

Note: I’m not using branches trunk and tags in simple things like this as there aren’t likley to be many branches to a small sites.

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