branches – for development
trunk – when branch is stable, merge it into trunk
tags – snapshots of the trunk (ex. release-1.0)
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Subversion Branches, Trunks, and Tags
Tuesday, April 13th, 2010How to switch Subversion repo to new location
Tuesday, April 13th, 2010If the server’s IP or hostname changes, you will need to switch your local copy of the repository to the new location.
Linux:
svn switch –relocate svn+ssh://<user>@<old_ip_address>/<repo> svn+ssh://<user>@<new_ip_address>/<repo> .
Windows:
Use Tortoise SVN->Relocate
How to create a Subversion repository (on Linux)
Tuesday, April 13th, 20101. mkdir /var/svn/Projects
2. svnadmin create /var/svn/Projects/<repo>
3. Load backup (if required): svnadmin load /var/svn/Projects/<repo> < <backup.dum>
ex: svnadmin load /var/svn/Projects/XYZ < /media/cdrom/XYZ.dum
4. Create group for <repo>
5. Add users to <group>
6. chown -R root:<group> /var/svn/Projects/<repo>
7. chmod -R ug+rwX,o= /var/svn/Projects/<repo>
