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Operating Systems Linux Subversion Post 60602 by cbkihong on Wednesday 19th of January 2005 09:33:20 AM

01-19-2005

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Subversion is my version control system of choice for managing the LaTeX sources of a book I am working on personally, though I store most of my other scripts or Web site content in CVS server instead.

Working with CVS command line options can be a horrendous experience for new users, as option values sometimes need to be given in certain order, or that the same switch may appears twice in a command but serving different purposes. e.g.:

cvs -d :pserver:anonymous@host:/home/cvsroot co -d tutorial/ tutorial

I am impressed by Subversion for a number of reasons:
- It has less tricky dark corners compared with CVS. CVS has certain behaviour that are not intuitive unless you have read the relevant sections of the manual.
- It supports file copy/rename without losing revision history. A feature I find most useful as I don't make good filenames usually at the very start.
- It does not distinguish binary/ASCII files. Some CVS front ends are prone to always add files in binary mode, making it difficult for some CVS clients to get context diffs even though it simply involves text data.
- Repository-wide revision numbers allow state at any instant to be consistently reproduced. With CVS, you can only be reliably achieving this by tagging often. Checkout by date/time with CVS does not necessarily produce a local copy at any consistent state, depending on the frequency of commits. Per-file revision is more intuitive IMO, though.

Personally I am more used to CVS, but I appreciate SVN's new features.

cbkihong

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svn

svn(1)							      General Commands Manual							    svn(1)

NAME

       svn - Subversion command line client tool

SYNOPSIS

       svn command [options] [args]

OVERVIEW

       Subversion is a version control system, which allows you to keep old versions of files and directories (usually source code), keep a log of
       who, when, and why changes occurred, etc., like CVS, RCS or SCCS.  Subversion keeps a single copy of the  master  sources.   This  copy	is
       called the source ``repository''; it contains all the information to permit extracting previous versions of those files at any time.

       For more information about the Subversion project, visit http://subversion.tigris.org.

       Documentation for Subversion and its tools, including detailed usage explanations of the svn, svnadmin, svnserve and svnlook programs, his-
       torical background, philosophical approaches and reasonings, etc., can be found at http://svnbook.red-bean.com/.

       Run `svn help' to access the built-in tool documentation.." Begin Sun update

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +--------------------+-----------------+
       |  ATTRIBUTE TYPE    | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
       +--------------------+-----------------+
       |Availability	    | SUNWsvn	      |
       +--------------------+-----------------+
       |Interface Stability | Committed       |
       +--------------------+-----------------+
NOTES

       Source for Subversion is available on http://opensolaris.org.

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