How to install and use svn locally

Svn is a software versioning and revision controlling system that can be used to organize your code written in any programming language. I use it often locally to organize my latex, vhdl, SystemC or other types of files. Here you can find some instructions how to use it locally

• Create a local repository folder (for instance /home/user/repos)
• Create a repository for a project (for instance project1) with the following command: svnadmin create /home/user/repos/project1
• Import files you want to track with svn with svn import folder/ - m "Initial import message" file:///home/user/repos/project1 where folder is the folder containing files you wan to track and “Initial import message” is the message you want to associate to your initial import
• You are now ready to use you svn repository associated to your project project1.
• First thing to do is to synchronize your working directory with the repository project1.
• Create a working directory somewhere (for instance /home/user/working_copy) and move to this folder and do the following svn co path_to_local_server, where path to the local server is file:///home/user/repos/project1
• To commit changed files do svn commit -m "Message"
• To see all log files svn log or the log files from a specific revision (from 5 to now) svn log -r 5:HEAD
• To see differences between actual and last updated revision version svn diff
• To synchronize your working directory with the last revision svn update