back to [/site Site Home] == Subversion Client Help == === Choices === There are several clients used to access a Subversion server. One can use the good-old command line interface, TortoiseSVN, or RapidSVN. The following is a rough approximation of the functionality of each of them. * [http://subversion.tigris.org Subversion Command-line interface] client. There is one for each platform, although I haven't tested any other than the Linux version. * [http://tortoisesvn.tigris.org TortoiseSVN] - a Windows client that is integrated into Windows Explorer shell. There is no program to run, rather you right-click in Windows Explorer to choose your options for update, commit, or other SVN commands. * [http://rapidsvn.tigris.org RapidSVN] - a cross-platform client that is more like a repository browser. It is written in C++ and is cross-platform with the help of wxWindows. Installation information may be found on each client's website. Once you have a client up and running, you may access code via the instructions on the page of the [/projects project] you wish to access. === Usage Notes === Examples use fictional project '''xyz'''. Any username and password required for [/forums forums], Subversion repository access, or project pages (Trac) are the same. dsource.org maintains only one set of credentials for each registered user. There is a [http://svnbook.red-bean.com/ very good online book about Subversion]. Chapter 2 talks about the general concept of version control and the way Subversion does it, Chapter 3 discusses daily use of the most basic functions, and Chapter 4 gets into advanced branching, tagging, and merging. ==== Help ==== {{{ ? svn help }}} or {{{ ? svn help {command} }}} ==== Checkout ==== {{{ ? svn co http://svn.dsource.org/projects/xyz /path/to/local/working/copy }}} ==== Commit ==== {{{ ? svn ci -m "descriptive message of changes made" /files/to/commit }}} '''Note:''' The SVN url's changed as of May 2005. Here is [/site/SubversionURLChangeMay2005 more info] on the change.[[br]][[br]] back to [/site Site Home]