Subversion

Subversion

Introduction

If you want to take advantage of the latest project developments, you can go to our subversion server and get the most recent version of the code.

please note: like any code from an svn repository, this version may contain bugs, but most of the time it’s fairly stable…_ If you want to submit patches or translations, please always use the latest SVN version:

How to get the latest svn version:

For the latest bugfixes for a release, use the bugfix branch:

$ svn co http://svn.seagullproject.org/svn/seagull/branches/0.6-bugfix
#!html
<p style="color: Red;">
NOTE: CURRENTLY THE LATEST CODE CAN BE FOUND IN THE 0.6-BUGFIX BRANCH ABOVE
</p>

In your ~/.subversion/config you can optionally set the following:

[miscellany]
enable-auto-props = yes
[auto-props]
*.php = svn:eol-style=native
*.html = svn:eol-style=native
*.lang = svn:eol-style=native
...
etc.

This way eol is kept consistently in the repository (auto props apply only to new files added).

User and Password

There is NO username or password required. In tortoise leave these fields blank

List Branches

You see a list of all branches at http://svn.seagullproject.org/svn/seagull/branches/

How to check which of your files changed compared with what’s in SVN:

$ svn status

How to check which repo (remote) files have changed compared with yours:

$ svn status -u

How to create a tag

$ svn copy http://svn.seagullproject.org/svn/seagull/trunk http://svn.seagullproject.org/svn/seagull/branches/foo

How to export a release

$ svn export http://svn.seagullproject.org/svn/seagull/trunk

How to update an existing copy

Be sure you are in the directory where your seagull installation resides. If you checked out seagull in /home/user/seagull be sure to cd /home/user/seagull before running the update command.

$ svn update

How to submit a patch

See the section on creating and Submitting Patches

How to merge

This scenario illustrates how you would merge the bugfix branch down into trunk.

First cd into the trunk

$ cd /var/www/html/seagull/trunk

Then get the revision number for when the branch was last merged down to trunk

$ svn log --stop-on-copy

Say it’s revision 1823.

Run the merge with a –dry-run, when you’re sure, run without

$ svn --dry-run merge -r 1824:HEAD http://svn.seagullproject.org/svn/seagull/branches/0.4-bugfix

where the args represent: svn merge -r[evision] [revision when branched]:[revision of ‘merge from’] [url of ‘merge from’]

the final argument is omitted in the example, it’s the target directory of where the files will be merged into, this is presumed to be “.” or the current directory

How to switch a repo

If you are using the same server

$ svn switch http://svn.seagullproject.org/svn/newrepos /path/to/local/copy

If you are switching from a server that no longer works to a new server

$ svn switch --relocate http://seagull.phpkitchen.com:8172/svn/seagull/trunk http://svn.seagullproject.org/svn/seagull/trunk /path/to/local/copy

How to import a repo

$ svnadmin create --fs-type fsfs /usr/local/svn/newrepos

(subversion creates the filesystem type ‘fsfs’ by default from version 1.2 onwards, you really want to use this type as BDB can be highly unstable, especially with BDB 4.1)

then setup the relevant apache perms , and:

$ svn import mylocaldir http://svn.seagullproject.org/svn/newrepos/mylocaldir

How to dump one repo and load it into another filesystem type

This is extremely useful if you’re stuck using the BDB fs type, and want to recreate your repo in FSFS.

Dump the existing repo

$ svnadmin dump /usr/local/svn/oldrepos > myfile.dump

delete (and potentially backup) existing repo

$ rm -rf /usr/local/svn/oldrepos

create new repo

$ svnadmin create --fs-type fsfs /usr/local/svn/newrepos

load dumpfile

$ svnadmin load /usr/local/svn/newrepos < myfile.dump

How to delete a folder

$ svn remove http://svn.seagullproject.org/svn/seagull/branches/folder_to_delete

How to setup svn:externals for vendor branches

It is advisable to put 3rd party libs in their own branch, at the same level as trunk, branches, tags. * create the top level folder called ‘vendor’ * cd into vendor and export your lib dir there, ie repo/vendor/pear * cd into your lib dir and type

`svn propedit svn:externals .`  * if your environment doesn't have the EDITOR variable set, do
`export EDITOR=vim`  * link the vendor branch with its target location in your repo as follows
pear http://sdn.seagullsystems.com/svn/customer/project/trunk/pear  * svn up from your local checkout to pull the vendor lib into its correct location  * commit the svn  property for all users of the repo to benefit from the link

How to set svn properties

Setting the revision number to the file

svn propset svn:keywords "Revision" file.php

How to make a file in your repo executable

svn propset svn:executable ON etc/deploy_local.sh

How to repair a damaged repository

$ svnadmin verify /usr/local/svn/seagull
$ svnadmin recover /usr/local/svn/seagull
$ chown -R nobody /usr/local/svn/seagull

Hot backup

$ /usr/local/src/subversion-1.1.4/tools/backup/hot-backup.py /usr/local/svn/seagull /some/backup/dir

Post-commit hooks, closing tickets

You can pass arguments in your commit messages, these are then searched for text in the form of:

  command #1
  command #1, #2
  command #1 & #2 
  command #1 and #2 You can have more then one command in a message. The following commands are supported. There is more then one spelling for each command, to make this as user-friendly as possible.
 closes, closing, closed, fixes, fixing, fixed
    The specified issue numbers are closed with the contents of this
    commit message being added to it. 
 references, refs, addresses, re 
   The specified issue numbers are left in their current status, but 
   the contents of this commit message are added to their notes.

A fairly complicated example of what you can do is with a commit message of:

   Changed blah and foo to do this or that. Fixes #10 and #12, and refs #12.

This will close #10 and #12, and add a note to #12.

Remove .svn Directories

find . -name '.svn' -type d -exec rm -rf {} \;

List contributors with number of commits each

svn log -q | awk '/^r/ {print $3}' | sort | uniq -c

SVN Programs

Command line client for all systems:
- Subversion at Tigris.org
- type svn in your console
Windows XP/2k:
- TortoiseSVN - Integrates with shell (Windows Explorer)
All Windows:
- RapidSVN - wxWidgets based. Lacks some doc.
- WinMerge - Very good diff viewer.
Linux
- RapidSVN - wxWidgets based. Lacks some doc.
- Meld - Good diff viewer. End of page lists some others graphical diff clients, Kdiff3 is good too, also Kompare from the KDE SDK
- kdesvn - Uses its own svn libs
Mac
- Svn X
- Installing svn

Seagull Project

Seagull Project is a PHP framework with CMS components. Launched in 2003 back when CVS was the big thing, it still sees some use today but is mostly in retirement.