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Hi All. I've tried installing and running subversion but to no avail.
Im not one of those people who are very comfortable reading/understanding Unix type tutorials and I find that more information on subversion is written under the assumption that the person reading it is a total geek.
Have any of you come across instructions for installing, running and using subversion that are simple and easy to follow?
What platform are you on? For most platforms there's a package that you can just run to install subversion. Then it's just a matter of learning how the subversion commands work. There's the online book for that.
What platform are you on? For most platforms there's a package that you can just run to install subversion. Then it's just a matter of learning how the subversion commands work. There's the online book for that.
I'm using XP Pro & OS X - I have no real problem installing subversion - but because instructions are crappy and full of stuff that is totally meaningless (i.e. makes no sense) to me I find it difficult to even use it correctly. No offense - but I tried referring to that book and to me it may as well be written in Greek - even the quick start guide at the end assumes you know a hell of a lot - what ever happened to plain, basic English. 
Once I figure it out I'm going to write my own tutorial for the rest of us 
Last edited by Bink (2007-05-22 16:23:08)
ryanb wrote:What platform are you on? For most platforms there's a package that you can just run to install subversion. Then it's just a matter of learning how the subversion commands work. There's the online book for that.
I'm using XP Pro & OS X - I have no real problem installing subversion - but because instructions are crappy and full of stuff that is totally meaningless (i.e. makes no sense) to me I find it difficult to even use it correctly. No offense - but I tried referring to that book and to me it may as well be written in Greek - even the quick start guide at the end assumes you know a hell of a lot - what ever happened to plain, basic English.
Once I figure it out I'm going to write my own tutorial for the rest of us
I, for one, would be grateful if you did write a plain english tutorial for subversion
What is the problem? I never even read the subversion book and I use subversion pretty easily. I started with SVNX a client on OS X for it, but just recently I moved to the command-line version of it, and it's pretty much just as easy, or easier.
Once subversion is installed, you'll want to create a respository for all your code. I usually place mine in ~/projects/vc
vc for version control. And then each directory under is for a specific project, like ~/projects/vc/project1
Then project one usually has a trunk (latest development code), then tags and branches. I've never really used the tags and branches directory, but for practical use it should be a way to bookmark certain stages of code (like rails 1.2.3 would be a tag).
Then once you have a repository structure, you'll want to import your project into the trunk, and then walah you have a working subversion respository. From there you can check out your code (equivlant to downloading it), update your code, roll it back, etc.
Hope that helps!
This page should help you create a repository of your code, and also will show you how to add your project to it. A repository is where subversion stores all the copies of your code.
To make things easier we will use full paths in these commands. You can find the full path for the directory you are currently in by typing pwd
So lets say for instance you project is in /Users/dahuk/projects/ror/myproject
You want to create a repository lets say at /Users/dahuk/projects/svnrepos/myproject
Use the command (make sure the directory exists first)
svnadmin create /Users/dahuk/projects/svnrepos/myproject
Change your current directory to /Users/dahuk/projects/ror
svn import myproject file:///Users/dahuk/projects/svnrepos/myproject -m "anything you want"
#The -m means message
svn checkout file:///Users/dahuk/projects/svnrepos/myproject
Then type
svn status
svn commit -m "wow we are on v2 now!"
Also if you type svn help you can see all the possible commands.
Last edited by dahuk (2007-05-25 12:35:17)
I just released a railscasts episode on setting up a Rails project with subversion.
Excellent, thank you!
I just released a railscasts episode on setting up a Rails project with subversion.
Excellent - Ive used different source control apps/tools many, many times in the past on enterprise level projects - its just that the Subversion instructions out there for some reason are impossible to follow for me.
Now I am beginning to get it 
Hey question, does anyone know how I would add another user that is able to co/ci/etc... to a repository besides "deploy" part of capistrano and stuff? Let's call the new user "bob"
Well, to deploy bob needs SSH access to the production server. Can't you just not tell him the password?
Well, it's the fact that I want to know who did what revivion via subversion - not so much who deploys.
Otherwise it's "updated by deploy" on svn.
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