Subversion cheatsheet

admin

create a repository

• svnadmin create /home/brad/svnfolder

You get this message: B_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal error, run database recovery

• Do this: svnadmin recover /path/to/repos (as root)

client

adding files

• svn import -m "importing a project" . /home/brad/svnfolder/projectname/trunk
• svn import -m "importing a project" . svn+ssh://user@www.x.com/home/brad/svnfolder/projectname/trunk

what's in the repository?

• svn list path/file
• svn list svn+ssh://user@www.x.com/home/brad/svnfolder

history of a file

• svn log path/file

diff revisions of a file

• svn diff -rHEAD local/path/filename
  diff local version with last checked in...
• svn diff -r10 local/path/filename
  diff local version with revision 10
• svn diff -r21:20 svn+ssh://server/path/filename
  diff two versions in the repository

revert to a previous version of a file

• svn log filename - figure out the rev you want
• svn co -r rev filename
• I think you must resolve the conflicts here: cp file.xxx.rev file.xxx; svn resolved filename
• svn commit

create a branch

svn copy http://svn.example.com/repos/calc/trunk \
    http://svn.example.com/repos/calc/branches/my-calc-branch \
    -m "Creating a private branch of /calc/trunk."