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Some Interesting Free Online Subversion Training by Wandisco

Vishwajeet Singh — Tue, 11 May 2010 19:24:29 +0000

WANdisco is offering some free online training sessions over the next few weeks, for any that are interested.

The topics will include:

Introduction to Subversion for Developers – 5th May

All About Subversion Hook Scripts – 19th May

Using Subversion Locking – 2nd June

All About Subversion Checkouts – 16th June

Using the Subversion Diff Command – 30th June

Branching and Merging in Subversion 1.6.9 – 14th July

Feel free to see the website for more information:
http://wandisco.com/webinar/subversion/training

Some Useful Subversion Resources

Vishwajeet Singh — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 20:02:44 +0000

In this article I am going to put on links to various useful Subversion resource available on internet which can get you started with using Subversion easily; whether you are end user or a developer looking for an API for language of your choice and I hope you all can contribute to grow this list further I am aware that there is exhaustive list already available on tigris site.

Lets start this list

Subversion Home : Home of the great tool you can find the binaries for latest version from the website based on operating system of your choice it also includes collabnet certified binaries.

TortoiseSVN : Most preferred Subversion client for windows

VisualSVN : Great tool to get you started quickly with Subversion without any hassles comes with Apache and wizard based setup is just awesome for newbies

AnkhSVN : Visual studio integration for all M$ fans

RapidSVN : Multi-platform GUI front-end

SVNKIT : Java API for Subversion, pretty easy to get started lot’s examples available and documentation is just awesome

PySVN : Python API for Subversion, nice pythonic interface, some people might differ and point out Subvertpy is more pythonic, I like both of them equally.

This list is In progress and I will keep updating it.

Installing latest version of Subversion on Centos/Redhat Linux

Vishwajeet Singh — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 19:24:39 +0000

I recently setup Subversion on Centos as well as RHEL, so thought will share the steps followed though it’s pretty straight forward it will help people looking for it and will be available to me for future references as well

Step1 Install rpmforge repository

$ sudo rpm -Uhv http://apt.sw.be/redhat/el5/en/i386/rpmforge/RPMS/rpmforge-release-0.3.6-1.el5.rf.i386.rpm

Step2 Install Subversion

$ sudo yum install subversion

Step3 Install mod_dav_svn (Only required if you planning Apache Integration)

$ sudo yum install mod_dav_svn

Voila and you are done, go to command prompt and type following

$ svn –version

You should see output as below

svn, version 1.6.9 (r901367)
compiled Mar 22 2010, 00:59:50

Copyright (C) 2000-2009 CollabNet.
Subversion is open source software, see http://subversion.tigris.org/
This product includes software developed by CollabNet (http://www.Collab.Net/).

The following repository access (RA) modules are available:

* ra_neon : Module for accessing a repository via WebDAV protocol using Neon.
– handles ‘http’ scheme
– handles ‘https’ scheme
* ra_svn : Module for accessing a repository using the svn network protocol.
– with Cyrus SASL authentication
– handles ‘svn’ scheme
* ra_local : Module for accessing a repository on local disk.
– handles ‘file’ scheme

Happy 6th birthday To Subversion

Vishwajeet Singh — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 14:36:31 +0000

I just go a mail on Subversion mailing list informing that today is the 6th Birthday of Subversion for those who are thinking what is Subversion they can read here.

So Subversion has come along pretty well since it’s 1.0 release 6 years back and this day I would like to thank all developers who have put in there efforts to make Subversion what it is today; it stands tall among the many commercial tools.

So how I celebrated the Subversion’s birthday I went to svnforum.org and tried to answer queries of people as thats the way you can help Subversion adoption to grow among masses.

Developers are doing there bit by developing it; so we as a part of community need to contribute in what ever way possible.

This day I wish many many happy returns of the day to Subversion and want to congratulate Subversion community for great going looking ahead to more great accomplishments in future.

Subversion Keyword Expansion in Microsoft Office Files

Vishwajeet Singh — Sat, 23 May 2009 10:21:58 +0000

Assuming svn keywords property is enabled on your office files you need add the keywords in the syntax shown below

Path of file in the subversion repository $HeadURL:: $
For the current $Revision::                                                  $
For the checkin date $Date::                                                 $
For Author $Author::                                                         $

The noticeable difference from the keywords expansion in text file is the extra spaces given after :: if you don’t give extra spaces than your file will get corrupted as during expansion the space required for expansion will not be available and hence causing corruption of files.