Audience

• Teams of software developers and programmers who need to work co-operatively on projects.
• System administrators who need to install and maintain the Subversion software and Subversion repositories.

Objectives

• Be able to install and setup a Subversion server
• Create and maintain a repository
• Daily work as developer (Check-in/check-out/etc...)
• Setup branches and merge them together

Course format
Duration of the course: 8-16 academic hours. The course includes approximately 40% hands on lab work.

Prerequisite

• An understanding of the code-management issues in team-based software development

Syllabus

• The concepts of Subversion
• Repository layout
• Revision numbers
• Copy-Modify-Merge and Lock-Modify-Unlock
• Daily use of Subversion (check-out, check-in, log, lock, blame)
• Basic concepts
• Accessing a repository
• Checking out a working copy
• Making a change
• Finding out what you (and others) did
• Committing
• Detecting and resolving conflicts
• Finding out who did what (browsing log messages)
• Examining and reverting changes
• Adding files, directories
• Binary files
• Removing files, directories
• Renaming files and directories
• Getting snapshots (dates and tagging)
• Marking a moment in time
• Branching/Merging/Tagging - copying trees
• Working with branches
• Advanced Subversion
• Subversion Server for Administrators
• Repository Administration
• Starting a repository
• Ways of accessing a repository
• svnserver
• svnserver with ssh
• Apache and WebDAV
• Anonymous access
• Administrative information
• Backups
• Hooks for automated events
• Tips and troubleshooting
• Using TortoiseSVN
• Using SVK
• Other clients, embedding SVN in applications