ZigVersion

Zachary Lund — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 18:05:33 +0000

I prefer to do all of my Subversion work from the command line, but I realize that not all people are like me. Clarissa and I have been using a wiki to keep track of most of our shared information (including our wedding preparations), but our wiki does not work well for content like spreadsheets. Therefore, I decided to try out a Subversion repository. After some initial searching for graphical clients, I found ZigVersion. It is a simple graphical Subversion client for Mac OS X. It took a little bit to explain how it worked and how to use it to Clarissa, but now we have been sharing and editing non-wiki-friendly files for a few weeks.

svn switch

Zachary Lund — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 19:11:23 +0000

I’ve struggled with this command for a while. It should let me change the URL of a directory in a repository, but I’ve never had any luck. It turns out it wasn’t so hard. Running “svn info” shows the current URL and that it ends in “cosc170″.

zlund@kastria:~/compilers$ svn info
Path: .
URL: svn+ssh://dakara/home/zac/repositories/marquette/cosc170
Repository Root: svn+ssh://dakara/home/zac/repositories/marquette
Repository UUID: e0bd8123-bfd5-445b-929b-77a6dd82f418
Revision: 29
Node Kind: directory
Schedule: normal
Last Changed Author: zac
Last Changed Rev: 27
Last Changed Date: 2009-01-31 15:06:57 -0600 (Sat, 31 Jan 2009)

I want to change “cosc170″ to “cosc/170″ because I already made this change in the repository and the URL is out of date on this working copy. Therefore, I type “svn switch” followed by the new URL and then a “.” to specify the current directory.

zlund@kastria:~/compilers$ svn switch svn+ssh://dakara/home/zac/repositories/marquette/cosc/170 .
At revision 36.

It updates the URL and the working copy. Now a “svn info” shows the correct URL and the updated revision number.

zlund@kastria:~/compilers$ svn info
Path: .
URL: svn+ssh://dakara/home/zac/repositories/marquette/cosc/170
Repository Root: svn+ssh://dakara/home/zac/repositories/marquette
Repository UUID: e0bd8123-bfd5-445b-929b-77a6dd82f418
Revision: 36
Node Kind: directory
Schedule: normal
Last Changed Author: zac
Last Changed Rev: 33
Last Changed Date: 2009-03-09 23:18:47 -0500 (Mon, 09 Mar 2009)

When the directory structure of a repository changes, it isn’t necessary to check out a new copy. The existing working copy can be updated to reflect the change to the repository.

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ZigVersion

svn switch