How To Exclude Files From Displaying in Subversion Status Command?

June 23rd, 2007 In directories under subversion there may be files which you do not want to add to subversion. Normally such files would show in subversion status (svn stat) with ? in front of them.

January 13th, 2007 Subversion is a free open source source code management system (SCM) like CVS, Perforce, ClearCase etc. In this simple 5 minutes guide you will know about some key commands to quickly get started with subversion from ground zero.

January 15th, 2007 I wanted a seamless procedure to update web sites and web applications without compromising security. The development server is under a firewall and so is the production server.

June 15th, 2006 When you checkout a repository from subversion it creates a .svn directory (with subdirectories) for every directory (and subdirectory) checked out. The .svn directory contains information about the repository and files in the directory and allows you to run svn commands without having to authenticate yourself in future.

August 27th, 2008 I am using Ant (Java based build system) for our project. Ant is an exceptionally powerful build system and should be the only build system you will ever need.

August 14th, 2007 I discovered a really cool way to use Subversion, my favorite version control system - automatic versioning / commit on save. Essentially with this simple tweak you can use subversioned files like you would use any ordinary files.

October 8th, 2007 PmWiki is a popular wiki software which uses the file system to store wiki pages. We use for our intranet and to document our processes and systems.

November 4th, 2005 Subversion is a popular version control software and replacement for CVS, the grand-daddy of all version control software which is still widely used in open source community. Recently I had the necessity to invoke Subversion commands like checkout from Ant, a popular java based build software which replaces make tool.

October 25th, 2006 Revision number of a file is an important information. Two most common uses are in serialization and in making version specific database upgrades for an application.

September 25th, 2006 I am assuming that you have downloaded and installed Apache 2.x on your windows machine. Use the latest version 2.2, if you do not have plans to run Subversion on it.

May 2nd, 2007 In the process of mirroring Fedora Core updates repository over a slow (256 Kbps) connection using rsync, I realized that the process can be extremely frustrating as you spend lots of time looking at the console, waiting for something to happen...anything. Then I found the magic option to show a progress meter - --progress.

January 12th, 2004 Creating link files are necessary for allowing users to easily execute Java programs on windows Sample VB code to create link files is in http://wss.hypermart.net/vb/shortcut.html Another option (simpler for the programmer) may be to just create a batch file (.bat) file which the users double-click to run the application (same as a lnk file). Creating it is much simpler.

April 30th, 2009 Subversion is a highly popular version control system used worldwide. It succeeds CVS and aims to rectify its shortcomings.

June 15th, 2006 How can you recursively delete files and directories in windows? You can select them in explorer (in windows) and delete it, right? The problem with the explorer approach is that if one or more files and / or directories cannot be deleted then the whole process fails. Try cleaning your Local Settings\temp directory to see an example.

June 20th, 2007 I was contacted by ProjectLocker to review their new service: Subversion Analytics. I took the service through the paces using their demo account.