Subversion day to day

Subversion's Working Cycle

The normal working cycle in terms used by Subversion is:

# checkout/update
# test
# edit
# test
# commit

The Example Project

We can illustrate this using our example project and the command line client.

Checkout

The first step is to checkout a copy of the code:

svn checkout http://source.ggy.bris.ac.uk/subversion/myproject/trunk --user-name mylogin workingcopy

This creates a new directory, called workingcopy, containing the lastest version of the files on the trunk of that repository. The trunk distuinguishes these files from those which may exist on a branch of the repository. Branching is more advanced than we need concern ourselves with at the moment. For now, just note that we will be using the trunk at all times.