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Re: Suggestions for handbook: Version Control with Subversion, Subversion 1.1

From: Andy Levy <andy.levy_at_gmail.com>
Date: 2006-01-06 04:59:10 CET

It may also be worthwhile to check the nightly "build" of the book for
any updates in these areas and apply the patches to that. The 1.1
version is a little old from what I recall.

On 05 Jan 2006 13:59:38 -0600, kfogel@collab.net <kfogel@collab.net> wrote:
> I think these edits would be *much* easier for the book maintainers to
> digest if they were given in patch form. The svnbook.red-bean.com
> website should have instructions for how to do that; you would use
> 'svn diff' to produce the patch.
>
> -Karl
>
> --
> www.collab.net <> CollabNet | Distributed Development On Demand
>
>
> Mark Westenberger <m_west@routes.com> writes:
> > Hello,
> >
> > So, I'm a newbie, who started by blindly groping the elephant.
> >
> > I've found this handbook to be one of the best I've come across.
> > It is very well written!
> >
> > If you wish, below I offer some dreadfully simple editorial
> > notes coming from the uninitiated, virgin mind, naiive to
> > what I was about to read and expecting a struggle to comprehend.
> > (It wasn't after all).
> > They may assist the next round of "men of Indostan".
> >
> > There is one edit with a [<set of choices for you>] which I am
> > yet to discover for myself!
> >
> > After a mere day and a half, I've got a server up and running
> > with our project stuffed into SVN, and with some smiles, have
> > made the first round of new (bug?) contributions to our code.
> >
> > Kind regards,
> > Mark Westenberger
> >
> > ----------------------------------------------------------
> > Subversion's Components
> >
> > svn
> > The client-side command-line interface.
> >
> > svnversion
> > A client-side program for reporting ...
> >
> > svnlook
> > An administrative, server-side tool for inspecting ...
> >
> > svnadmin
> > An administrative, server-side tool for creating...
> >
> > svndumpfilter
> > An administrative, server-side program for filtering ...
> >
> > mod_dav_svn
> > <as is>
> >
> > svnserve
> > The SVN server-side workhorse. A custom standalone ...
> > ----------------------------------------------------------
> > A Quick Start
> >
> > If you're one of those folks who prefers to learn by experimentation,
> > the following demonstration will get
> > you up and running, with a small "Hello World"-sized example complete
> > with the single SVN repository.
> >
> > ...
> >
> > Subversion stores all versioned data in a single central
> > repository. To begin, create that single new repository:
> >
> > ...
> >
> > This command creates a new directory /path/to/repos which contains a
> > Subversion repository. Note that
> > in this case a path is used and not a URL. This is because svnadmin
> > is used on the server-side. Elaborations
> > on this difference are presented in the section entitled "Repository
> > Creation and Configuration".
> >
> > ...
> > your structure should contain three top-level directories named branches,
> > tags, and trunk. The names "branches", "tags" and "trunk" are
> > [reserved? | special? | just suggestions?].
> > Further examples will expect this structure, so don't be skimpy on
> > space by cutting it back. Here is the tree you should create:
> >
> > ...
> >
> > At this point, you have the option of making your new repository
> > available to others over a network as the
> > single, central SVN repository. This would expect that the computer on
> > which you are performing these
> > examples could act as a server within your specific network.
> > ----------------------------------------------------------
> > Creating a Branch
> >
> > There are two different ways to make a copy. We'll demonstrate the
> > messy way first, just to make the concept clear.
> > You will start from the root directory, and not "trunk" as we need the
> > subdirectories in the next steps.
> > So, to begin, check out a working copy of the project's root
> > directory, /calc:
> >
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