In a current project I use a lot of Subversion (svn) from the command-line. Subversion recently has lost terrain to Git for several reasons. But actually, svn is capable of doing many of the things I love from Git. Here are some less known commands I find extremely helpful. Undo last commit svn merge […]
I had to repair a flawed Subversion repository recently (not all files were committed). I had my local repository checked out. This was the flawed part, containing only parts of the folders and files it should. Then, I got a zip file from the machine where it was working. Problem: It contained .svn folders from […]
At a current project I work on, we use a Windows server to run our subversion repository. I wanted to set up the pre-commit hook so that commits with empty comment are automatically rejected. All commit-hook example files that go with Subversion are written in bash (as unix servers tend to be the normal). Here […]
Many of my colleagues know svn but are in general not (yet) ready jump over to using Git for bigger projects. Today I had to import my existing Git repository into SVN. I had been working locally with a Git repos and wanted to keep my history before giving access to my colleagues. The guide […]
Quick Subversion trick: I asked at the office today if anyone could figure out a method for doing a dry-run to see what files would be updated if you do an “svn update” from repository. My colleague Mads came up with this: jesper:test_project jesper$ svn merge –dry-run -r BASE:HEAD . U app/helpers/application_helper.rb U app/controllers/reports_controller.rb A […]
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