Subversion

Basic Commands

If using this guide, be sure to replace “user” with actual user name.

Create svn repository.

[user@highenergy ~]$ svnadmin create --fs-type fsfs /home/user/svn

Lists directory.

[user@highenergy ~] svn ls file:///home/user/svn

View repository log.

[user@highenergy ~]$ svn log file:///home/user/svn

Create a directory.

[user@highenergy ~]$ svn mkdir file:///home/user/svn/my_project

Change directory to the project path.

[user@highenergy ~]$ cd /path/to/my/project

View the directory structure with the tree command.

You may need to install tree in order to do this. tree -a

Get rid of any compiled files, binary executables and so forth. This will leave just the source code files to keep in our repository.

[user@highenergy ~]$ rm -f bin/main

Import project into repository.

[user@highenergy ~]$ svn import /path/to/my/project/ file:///home/user/svn/my_project -m 'Initial import'

Now to make use of svn # Coming soon