Basic Work Cycle

Subversion has numerous features, options, bells and whistles, but on a day-to-day basis, odds are that you will only use a few of them. In this section we'll run through the most common things that you might find yourself doing with Subversion in the course of a day's work.

The typical work cycle looks like this:

  • Update your working copy

    • svn update

  • Make changes

    • svn add

    • svn delete

    • svn copy

    • svn move

  • Examine your changes

    • svn status

    • svn diff

  • Possibly undo some changes

    • svn revert

  • Resolve Conflicts (Merge Others' Changes)

    • svn update

    • svn resolved

  • Commit your changes

    • svn commit

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