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Re: First Hands-on Subversion—Where/How?

From: Alexey Neyman <stilor_at_att.net>
Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2011 16:03:56 -0700

Dear Pietro,

I think you should start your learning Subversion from learning what a
"command line" is. Subversion manual is no substitute for knowing the OS.

Or alternatively, have someone install a repostory for you and go with a GUI
client, such as TortoiseSVN.

Regards,
Alexey.

On Friday, October 28, 2011 03:52:31 pm Pietro Moras wrote:
> more specific questions
>
>
>
> My pleasure, dear
> Geoff, Here you have some
> very Specific Questions.
>
> SQ1] How to get what I
> presume is a nice Subversion prompt:
>
> $
> on one of my
> standard Windows machines, so to test the wonderful Subversion
> commands so eloquently described by the mentioned self-declared
> Official Guide and Reference Manual, so practically useless at the
> very beginning of a learning process; that is, exactly when you need
> most practical and effective information and support?
>
>
> SQ2] Why should I go
> scrabbling and begging via Google for practical, operative info, I'd
> reasonably expected to find right away at page 1 on the mentioned
> book, or at the page 1 on the Subversion web site?
>
>
> SQ3] Am I the first
> Subversion potential user starting from scratch?
> Everybody else
> knowing how to set-up a Subversion environment even before beginning
> to use it?
>
> Of course thank you for
> pointing me to the right direction. Of course.
>
> All the best. Yours, - P.M.
>
> Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2011 11:20:54 -0700
> Subject: Re: First Hands-on Subversion—Where/How?
> From: ghoffman_at_cardinalpath.com
> To: studio-pm_at_hotmail.com
> CC: users_at_subversion.apache.org
>
>
>
> On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 11:00 AM, Pietro Moras <studio-pm_at_hotmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> Dear Subversion
> cognoscenti,
>
> Seriously
> intentioned to explore what Subversion is all about, armed with good
> will and a good reference book (“Version Control with Subversion”,
> by Ben Collins-Sussman, Brian W. Fitzpatrick, C.
> Michael Pilato),
> I got immediately lost & stuck at the very first command:
>
> $
> svn help
>
>
>
> ?] That said, where/how on earth
> could I get such Subversion grass-roots commands working? Is there any
> practical way, any practical tool, any practical good soul/good
> organisation where to find a test client-server setup where to
> (seriously) “play” with Subversion VCS? I'd be happy to begin
> even with a tiny a client-server set-up onto a machine of mine, would
> such a tool available; even no idea whether such a naïve idea of
> mine is feasible or not.
>
> Gratefully yours,
>
> -
> P.M.
> ____________
>
> Ref.:
> dr. Pietro Moras
> Email
> Studio-PM_at_hotmail.com
>
>
>
> Greetings Pietro,
> Start here http://svnbook.red-bean.com/
> Then I would recommend a Google search like install subversion
> {platform_or_distro_you_use} -- for example here's a good quick overview
> at Ubuntu https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Subversion
>
> Remember, `Subversion` is both a client software and a server software, so
> it doesn't do you much good to learn `svn ___` (client) unless you have
> already used svnadmin to create a repository... (server). You can do this
> all locally, or on a VM (I would recommend go this route, eg virtualbox,
> if you're on Windows).
>
> Post back here with more specific questions as you go.
Received on 2011-10-29 01:04:34 CEST

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