The following sections teach you how to use different commands in Subversion.

To create a new Subversion archive, type the following:

$ cd ~/your-project         # go to your source directory
$ svn import http://localhost/repos your-project \
  project-name -m "initial project import"

This creates a directory named project-name in your Subversion repository which contains your project files. Look at http://localhost/repos/ to see if it's there.

Working with project-y using Subversion:

$ cd                            # move to the work area
$ svn co http://localhost/repos/project-y  # Check out sources
$ cd project-y
 ... do some work ...
$ svn diff                      # similar to diff -u repository/ local/
$ svn revert modified_file      # undo changes to a file
$ svn ci -m "Describe changes"  # check in your changes to the repository
$ vi newfile_added
$ svn add newfile_added
$ svn add new_dir               # recursively add all files in new_dir
$ svn add -N new_dir2           # nonrecursively add the directory
$ svn ci -m "Added newfile_added, new_dir, new_dir2"
$ svn up                        # merge in latest version from repository
$ svn log                       # shows all changes committed
$ svn copy http://localhost/repos/project-y \
      http://localhost/repos/project-y-branch \
      -m "creating my branch of project-y"  # branching project-y
$ svn copy http://localhost/repos/project-y \
      http://localhost/repos/proj-y_release1.0 \
      -m "project-y 1.0 release"    # added release tag
 ... note that branching and tagging are the same. The only difference
 ... is that branches get committed whereas tags do not.

... make changes to branch ...

$ # merge branched copy back to main copy
$ svn merge http://localhost/repos/project-y \
   http://localhost/repos/project-y-branch
$ svn co -r 4 http://localhost/repos/project-y # get revision 4

documented on: 2007-09-21