Introduction to Subversion

Wendy Smoak

Rob Richardson

Desert Code Camp, October 2006

 Wendy Smoak
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Sr. Systems Analyst,
Arizona State University
– Web application development
– Systems and database administration

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Member, The Apache Software Foundation
– Struts, MyFaces, Shale, Maven
– Infrastructure, release management, documentation

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Contact me:
– [email protected]
– http://www.wsmoak.net
 Rob Richardson
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Principal, Richardson & Sons
– Provides enterprise software development for small- to medium-sized
businesses.
– Has created software applications raging from enterprise-scale
applications to PDA-based systems, web applications to embedded
database synchronization and postscript processing systems.
– Specializes in translating business requirements into technical
solutions.
– Our business is listening to your needs and building you effective
tools.

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My Qualifications
– Masters of Science in Computer Information Systems (MSCIS)
– Bachelors of Fine Arts in Industrial Design (BFA ID), the study of
human factors and human / technology interaction
– Over 10 years of software development experience

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Contact me:
– richardsonandsons.com/contact.aspx
 What is source control?
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A central place to store your code
– Backup and recovery

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Records a history of code changes
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Facilitates collaboration among development
team members
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Easy to check out prior code, undo changes,
version products
How does source control work?
User1
Import
Create Project or Add

Update The Repository

User2
Working Copy Commit

Check Out
User3
Working Copy
 Why should I
use source control?
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Because the alternative is frightening beyond
all reason
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Some motivation:
“Well, I'd been working on the code, and got it to a state where I was
prepared to share it. Then I thought I'd clean up the target directory
and do a new build just to be sure. So I type rm -r *. But hold on, I'm
not in the target directory, I'm in the project home directory, and I'd
just deleted the entire project. Luckily I've got earlier versions lying
around but I've lost a few hours work.”
 What is Subversion?
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Free/open source version control system
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Replacement for CVS
– CVS was the de facto standard on Unix/Linux/BSD

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Started and still partially funded by CollabNet
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Tracks changes in any type of file, not just
source code
 Tradeoffs
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Disk space
– Local control files require disk space

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Control
– Must move and rename files through the tools

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User Maintenance Time
– Users must be diligent in checking in and out
files
 Choosing a Subversion Client
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Command line
– Text commands, scriptable

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Graphical
– TortoiseSVN

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IDE Integration
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Browser-based viewers

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Same functionality, a matter of preference
 Demo
Check Out, Update, Commit
 Commit Messages
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Explain what the change does and why you
are making it
 When to Commit
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When you've finished a feature
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Don't break the repository’s build
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Don’t diverge too far from the repository
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Be a good team player
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Work with your organization to develop
practices that match your business culture
 What to Commit:
If you can build it, don’t commit it
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Commit these: ●
Not these:
– Source files – User files
– Saved database ●
*.suo
info: ●
*.csproj.user
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stored procedures – Temp files
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table definitions ●
obj & bin folders
– Resources ●
Debug & Release
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Images folders
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resx files – Built files
– Configuration files ●
*.dll, *.exe
– Build notes
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*.cab, *.tar
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*.jar, *.msi
– Test harnesses – The database
– Absolute path
references
 Choosing a Subversion Client
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Command line ●
IDE Integration
– Text commands – IntelliJ IDEA
– Shell scripts – Eclipse
– Visual Studio
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Graphical
– TortoiseSVN ●
Browser- based
Viewers
– ViewVC
Each tool has the – FishEye
same functionality – Repo Browser
Choose the tool that
works for you
 IDE Integration
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IntelliJ IDEA
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Eclipse
– http://subclipse.tigris.org/

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Visual Studio
– Ankh: http://ankhsvn.tigris.org/
– SvnLitePlugin:
http://cnicholson.net/content.php?id=61
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– VisualSVN: http://www.visualsvn.com
– PushOK: http://www.pushok.com/soft_svn.php
– TortoiseSVN + VS.NET:
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http://garrys-brain.blogspot.com/2006/10/tortoisesvn-vsnet-2005-good-stuff.html
 Viewing the contents of a repo

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TortoiseSVN Repo Browser
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ViewVC
– formerly ViewCVS
– http://www.viewvc.org/

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FishEye
– Cenqua
– Not free/open source
 Demo
Viewing a Repository
 Repository Design
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Multiple repositories?
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Convention, for each project
– trunk
– branches
– tags
 Creating a new repository
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TortoiseSVN “Create repository here”
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svnadmin at the command prompt
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Access the repository with file:// urls
 Importing and Adding Code
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'svn mkdir'
– Creates a directory

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'svn import'
– Imports the contents of a directory

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'svn add'
– Adds to your working copy
 Demo
Create a repository and
import a project
 Moving and Renaming Files
• Use the tools, commit changes
– 'svn move‘
– 'svn rename'

• Moving and renaming any other

way will cause your working
copy to get out of sync with the
repository

• To recover, undo your changes,

then re-do with svn commands.
 Removing and Reverting
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Nothing is ever truly gone
– Be careful what you add!
– Possible to remove with dump, filter, load
– This is scary beyond measure
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'svn rm' or 'svn delete'
– Removes files from your working copy
– Will remove files in project from now on
– Will not remove the history of the file
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(removing the file does not shrink repository)
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'svn revert'
– Local “undo” command
– svn revert . (current directory)
– svn revert -R * (recursive, everything)
 Subversion as a Server
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file://
– OK for small applications
– Not truly client / server
– File system must provide security
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svn://
– True client-server access mechanism
– Run subversion as a windows service
– Can integrate with ssh
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http:// or https://
– Apache httpd webserver
– Subversion comes with mod_*_svn.so
– Various Apache authentication modules available
– Apache can use with Windows authentication
 Starting svnserve
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svnserve --help (for options)
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As a Windows Service
– http://dark.clansoft.dk/~mbn/svnservice/SVNService.zip

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As a daemon
– svnserve -d -r “c:\codecamp\repo”

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Listens on port 3690 by default
– May need to configure firewall rules

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Now check out project via svn://
– svn co svn://localhost/my-app/trunk my-app
 Configuring svnserve
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Edit conf/svnserve.conf
– anon-access = none
– auth-access = write
– password-db = passwd
– authz-db = authz

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Add users and passwords to conf/passwd
– userid = topsecret

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Add authorization rules to conf/authz
– [/]
– userid = rw
– *=
 Other topics
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Properties
– svn:externals definitions
– svn:ignore
– svn:eol-style

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Converting repository to Subversion
– cvs2svn
– vss2svn
 Resources
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Subversion
– http://subversion.tigris.org
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TortoiseSVN
– http://tortoisesvn.tigris.org
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CollabNet
– http://www.collab.net
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Eric Sinc
– http://software.ericsinc.com/scm/source-control.html
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SVN 1-click Setup
– http://svn1clicksetup.tigris.org/
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Slides and Screenshots
– http://www.wsmoak.net/subversion/demo
 Books
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Version Control with Subversion
– http://svnbook.red-bean.com

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Practical Subversion (Garrett Rooney)
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Pragmatic Version Control using Subversion
(Mike Mason)
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