Subversion for Users

Understanding of file system concepts such as files, directories and access controls.

This course has been created for people who need to work co-operatively. The course explains the concepts of merges, conflicts, branches, revisions and diff files. Participants will learn how to use command line tools as well as GUIs like Tortoise.

Repository Basics

• What is a repository
• What should be stored in a repository
• Tracking file changes and history
• Repository URL and protocols

Working With Revisions

• Import project
• Concept of working copies
• Checking out and exporting
• Checking in and writing log messages
• Solving conflicts
• Finding differences between revisions and working copy files
• Reverting changes
• Adding new files to the repository
• Removing, moving and renaming files in the repository and working copy
• Creating snapshots with tagging
• Switching files to a certain moment in the past

Sharing Files

• Locking and unlocking file
• The Lock-Modify-Unlock Solution versus Copy-Modify-Merge Solution

Branching and Merging

• Creating branches
• Merging changes

Troubleshooting

• How to deal with not properly moved or copied files and folders
• Dealing with multiple working copies