Chapter 7. Advanced Topics

If you read this book chapter by chapter, by now, you should have acquired enough knowledge to use the Subversion client to perform the most common version control operations. You understand how to check out a working copy from a Subversion repository. You are comfortable with submitting and receiving changes using the svn commit and svn update functions. You probably even developed a reflex that causes you to run the svn status command almost unconsciously. For all intents and purposes, you are ready to use Subversion in a typical environment.

But the Subversion feature set doesn't stop at common version control operations.

This chapter highlights some of Subversion's features that aren't regularly used. In it, we discuss Subversion's property (or metadata) support, and how to modify Subversion's default behaviors by tweaking its runtime configuration area. We describe how you can use externals definitions to instruct Subversion to pull data from multiple repositories, and we cover in detail some of the additional client- and server-side tools that are part of the Subversion distribution.

Before reading this chapter, you should be familiar with the basic file and directory versioning capabilities of Subversion. If you haven't already read about those, or if you need a refresher, we recommend that you check out Chapter 2 and Chapter 3. Once you've mastered the basics and consumed this chapter, you'll be a Subversion power-user!



Version Control with Subversion
Version Control with Subversion
ISBN: 0596510330
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2003
Pages: 127

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