Subversion

Purpose

If you're writing code for IT's web group (application development group), you should be using a code revision control and management system.

Prerequisities

You'll need either a subversion client, or have installed the subversion client software on the *nix or linux system where you're working. This doc covers using svn on a unix system.

Step by step

Create a repository in subversion
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In this example, we'll create a repo for PloneFormGen.
Make a copy of /web/src/blankrepos/productname for your product. 

    cp -rf /web/src/blankrepos/productname ./PloneFormGen

This will be a temporary directory structure to setup your initial 
import. You'll delete this later.

Copy your source files into ./trunk/ 
    cd ./PloneFormGen/trunk
    cp -rf /path/to/source/PloneFormGen/* ./
    
Create the repo and add the directories.
    cd ../
    svnadmin create /web/svn/repos/PloneFormGen
    svn import trunk  file:///web/svn/repos/PloneFormGen/trunk -m"initial import" 
    svn import branches  file:///web/svn/repos/PloneFormGen/branches -m"initial import" 
    svn import tags  file:///web/svn/repos/PloneFormGen/tags -m"initial import" 

Delete your temporary copy now that you're done.



To create a branch:
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Checkout the code:
    svn co https://svn.dev.louisville.edu/PloneFormGen/trunk PloneFormGen

Make a copy, then commit:
    svn copy trunk branches/1.2-RC2-uofl-thanks-template
    svn commit -m"branching to create a thanks page version of PFG" 


To create a tag:
Working on trunk, you'll eventually get to a point where you'll want 
to tag it as a release iteration. 
    
    svn copy trunk tags/1.2-RC2
    svn commit -m"tagging as 1.2-RC2 release"

or, another way:...
    svn copy https://svn.dev.louisville.edu/PloneFormGen/trunk  \
        https://svn.dev.louisville.edu/PloneFormGen/tags/1.2-RC2  \
        -m"tagging as a 1.2-RC2 release candidate."
        

Further information

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