[TriLUG] SVN

[Tanner Lovelace]

On Thu, 04 Nov 2004 14:29:53 -0500, Alan Porter <porter at trilug.org> wrote:
> If you've used CVS in the past, there's not much else to learn.

The other thing to note about svn vs cvs is that whereas many cvs users
use "cvs update" to get a status of the files in their repositories (which ones
are modified, etc...), this really isn't a good thing to do all the
time since it
also pulls updated files out of the repository.  Unfortunately, the "cvs status"
command can be very confusing (which is why most people use update instead).

In subversion, this is now fixed and users should use "svn status" to
get a idea of which files have been modified, need updating, etc..
It gives the same type of display that cvs update gives, but without
pulling new files from the repository (use "svn update" to do that, just
like with cvs).

Cheers,
Tanner