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| lirec:version_control_guide [2009-02-04 16:25] – davegriffiths | lirec:version_control_guide [2009-02-04 17:14] – davegriffiths |
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| I've set up the lirec svn repository with a dummy project called 'sandbox' that you can play with and break to your heart's content. This guide is written for the commandline version of svn, and heavily biased towards linux. If you prefer buttons to press, read through this document anyway as the concepts are the same, and then have a look at [[http://tortoisesvn.tigris.org/|Tortoise SVN]] or [[http://subclipse.tigris.org/|SubClipse]] if you use Eclipse or [[http://www.visualsvn.com/|VisualSVN]] if you use VisualStudio. [TODO - update this with a guide for using these systems.] | I've set up the lirec svn repository with a dummy project called 'sandbox' that you can play with and break to your heart's content. This guide is written for the commandline version of svn, and heavily biased towards linux. If you prefer buttons to press, read through this document anyway as the concepts are the same, and then have a look at [[http://tortoisesvn.tigris.org/|Tortoise SVN]] or [[http://subclipse.tigris.org/|SubClipse]] if you use Eclipse or [[http://www.visualsvn.com/|VisualSVN]] if you use VisualStudio. [TODO - update this with a guide for using these systems.] |
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| Firstly svn likes to know what editor you like to use so it can launch it to add comments for your code commits. Put this environment variable in your .bashrc: | Firstly svn likes to know what editor you like to use so it can launch it to add comments for your code commits. Put this environment variable in your .bashrc (set to your editor of your choice, of course): |
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| <code>export EDITOR=vi</code> | <code>export EDITOR=vi</code> |
| Firstly go to a directory where you want to keep your code and run: | Firstly go to a directory where you want to keep your code and run: |
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| <code>svn checkout --username your-lirec-username http://svn.lirec.eu/</code> | <code>svn checkout svn+ssh://yourlogin@svn.lirec.eu</code> |
| | Replace "yourlogin" with your lirec website login. The username is required so svn knows who changed what. Read-only anonymous access is also available. |
| Obviously replacing "your-lirec-username". The username is required to link the changes you make to you. | |
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| ====Make some changes==== | ====Make some changes==== |
| <code>svn update</code> | <code>svn update</code> |
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| This will merge everyone's changes (if any have been made) into your working directory. If there is a conflict (two people have changed the same line) it will emit an error message, and insert both lines into the source file in question with lots of <<<<<<<<< so it will be obvious what is going on. | This will merge everyone's changes (if any have been made) into your working directory. If there is a conflict (two people have changed the same line) it will emit an error message, and insert both lines into the source file in question with lots of >>>>>>>>>>>>>> characters so it will be obvious what is going on. |
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| ====Diffing==== | ====Diffing==== |
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