Subversion - Graphics

Overview

Subversion is a version control system that aims to be a "better CVS". The way it works is similar to CVS in many respects, but it has a number of advantages over CVS (e.g., you can actually rename and move your files). For some basic information on Subversion, try these links:


		Subversion Homepage Source material for using subversion and installing a server.


		Version Control with Subversion Free book published by O'Reilly on how to use subversion.


		TortoiseSVN A subversion client that runs as a Windows filesystem explorer plug-in so you can update your code with a simple right click.


		SCPlugin Subversion client that plugs into the Mac OSX Finder

Migrating from CVS

The Subversion developers actually have a program – cvs2svn –
that can automatically convert a CVS repository to a Subversion repository, preserving all history.

The Subversion book includes an appendix on
Subversion for CVS Users.

Sending Commit E-mails

Subversion can send an e-mail notifying project members of a commit with the log entry and diffs of the changed files. There are sample files for this in

graphics:/usr/share/doc/subversion-1.0.9/tools/hook-scripts

but they aren't very well documented. The important thing to realize is that these scripts are run in a blank shell environment so you have to either set a PATH variable or run commands from an absolute /directory/filename specification. For a working example, see

graphics:/home/svn/wickbert/hooks/post-commit

Don't forget to change the permissions to executable and make sure everything can be accessed by the apache userid (under which it is executed).