Using Subversion

There are a variety of graphical clients for Subversion. They are freely available for all common operating systems. Descriptions, instructions, FAQs, etc. can be found on the Subversion website.

The following simple examples of client actions for a Subversion repository named “repo1” refer to the input of commands via the command line (Linux).

• “Initial filling” of the repository with the files in the local directory “source directory”: svn import sourcedirectory https://svn.rrz.uni-hamburg.de/repo1 -m “comment”
• Reading the repository into the local target directory “target directory”: svn co https://svn.rrz.uni-hamburg.de/repo1 targetdirectory
• Update the files in the local directory with the files in the repository: svn update
• Import a new version of one or more files from the current local directory into the repository: svn ci -m “Comment”