This article helps you to understand various SVN commands and its usage in Linux environment.
How To get the location of SVN:
| $ whereis svn svn: /opt/CollabNet_Subversion/bin/svn |
(or)
| $ which svn svn: /opt/CollabNet_Subversion/bin/svn |
How to get the SVN help
| $ svn help usage: svn <subcommand> [options] [args] Subversion command-line client, version 1.8.14. Type ‘svn help <subcommand>’ for help on a specific subcommand. Type ‘svn –version’ to see the program version and RA modules or ‘svn –version –quiet’ to see just the version number.Also, lists down all the available options |
How to get the SVN info
| $ svn info Path: . Working Copy Root Path: /home/<username>/<svn_project> URL: <svn repository url> Relative URL: ^/<svn relative url> Repository Root: <svn root> Repository UUID: <> Revision: <revision#> Node Kind: directory Schedule: normal Last Changed Author: <username> Last Changed Rev: <revision#> Last Changed Date: <Date and time> |
How To Check out a code from SVN repository:
| $ svn checkout <svn url>
or You can create a directory to check out the code there $mkdir project $ svn checkout <svn url> project |
How To Check in or commit the code into SVN repository:
| $svn commit file1, file2, file3
or You can commit a directory as well $svn commit folder_name Note: If the file or folder is new that has to be added into svn prior commit
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How to get the log from SVN:
| $ svn log -l 10 This list down last 10 log history |
How to perform SVN update:
| $ svn update
This will update the svn project repository to the head revision A – Added U – Local file or directory Updated M – Merged D – Deleted |
How to get the SVN status:
| $ svn status This list down all the files which are modified or new or removed from repositoryM – Modified? – New file or folder ! – Removed from repository A – Added to the repository U – Local file or directory Updated |
How to unlock the locked SVN project:
| $ svn cleanup
or $svn unlock The svn project is unlocked |
How to revert the local changes in the SVN project:
| First try to get the details of modified files in the project using $svn status
$ svn revert file1, file2…. Local changes will be reverted to the svn revision |
How to overcome the issue – File is not under version control:
| This issue may occur when you try to commit the file which was not added to the svn. For instance, there is a file(test1) added in your project and you are trying to commit the test1 file into svn.
$ svn commit test1 The test1 is not under version control. Now, add the file into svn using $svn add test1 and then perform commit |
How to Switch the user that has been used for code checkout
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Assume the svn project is being checked out by user1 and that needs to be switched to user2. $svn update –username=<user2> or $svn update –username <user2> |
How to rename a file or directory which is in SVN repository
| Assume file1 is exists in SVN repository and that needs to be changed to file2.
$ svn move file1 file2 Aliases: mv, rename, ren $svn mv or $svn rename or $svn ren |
Please find the svn help snapshot
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-bash-4.1$ svn help add Subversion is a tool for version control. |
Please leave a comment for any SVN issues or assistance in resolving the same.
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