Subversion for Users — a 1-day course

 Closed In-House Course

Synopsis

The course aims to take users with little or no knowledge of version control systems through to being competent subversion users capable of managing revisions, merges and branches. The course covers use of subversion both from the command line (Unix and Windows) and from the Tortoise GUI under Microsoft Windows.

Suitable for

Teams of application developers and programmers who need to work co-operatively on projects.

Prerequisites

Attendee are expected to be able to:

• Access applications from either command line of using graphical user interfaces
• Understand file system concepts such as files, directories, permissions, access control
• Create, move and delete files and directories

Delivery

Instructor lead in-house training with a great deal of hands-on practice.

Course Contents

Basic concepts underlying version control

• The concept of a working copy
• The diff operation for finding the differences between one version of a file and another
• Subversions (SVNs) version numbering scheme
• Versioning of files and directories
• SVN mechanisms for accessing a repository

Practical usage of SVN - both via the Tortoise GUI and via the command line

• Accessing a repository
• Checking out a working copy
• Making a changes to files and directories in the working copy
• Determining differences between files and directories in the working copy and those in the repository
• Committing work
  • The importance of commit log messages for the effective use of Subversion
• Detecting and resolving conflicts
• Searching and browsing log messages
• Using SVN commands for adding, removing and renaming files and directories in the working copy
• Using SVN commands for manipulating files and directories directly in the repository
• Creating snapshots in SVN (usage of dates and tagging)

Branching, Merging and Watches

• Creating branches
• Merging changes