Subversion tutorial

[sde]

I have decided I need to study up on version control and came upon a good tutorial for total newbies on version control with subversion.

I actually read a PDF this same author made in january 2004, but then I found he revised it in an html format in august 2004.

http://www.cbcb.duke.edu/~faheem/svn...al/svn.en.html
by Faheem Mitha

[sde]

anyone know how to set the text editor in subversion to vi? i have tried to set an environment variable: SVN_EDITOR='vi' but it doesn't work. I get this error when i try to commit:

$ svn ci
svn: Commit failed (details follow):
svn: Could not use external editor to fetch log message; consider setting the $SVN_EDITOR environment variable or using the --message (-m) or --file (-F) options
svn: None of the environment variables SVN_EDITOR, VISUAL or EDITOR is set, and no 'editor-cmd' run-time configuration option was found

[sde]

this fixes it if i set it AFTER i login.

$ EDITOR=vim svn commit

i tried to add this to my .bash_profile, but it does not work.

anyone have any experience with this?

[redhead]

This is great, I just took the long road and read the svn book

[idx]

export EDITOR=vi
or
EDITOR=vi; export EDITOR

[Belisarius]

Gah, you vi nutcases. You want pico.

[sde]

Originally Posted by idx

export EDITOR=vi
or
EDITOR=vi; export EDITOR

thanks!

[sde]

Originally Posted by redhead

This is great, I just took the long road and read the svn book

i need to read this too .. the tutorial i posted is more of a way to introduce how svn works to n00bs. it really helped me get the concept of what it is supposed to do, and how you do it.. now i need to read your link thanks for the link.

[Belisarius]

I've been using TortiseSVN for quick-and-easy versioning on Windows. I haven't plugged it into a network SVN server yet, though.

[sde]

tigris.com domain has been down since at least yesterday.

[sde]

if you are working on a website with subversion, .. is it a good idea to keep your images out of the file tree? i'm just thinking that this could get to be quite big with things other than text files.

[idx]

Originally Posted by Belisarius

Gah, you vi nutcases. You want pico.

What? pico is a PITA.

[Belisarius]

Originally Posted by sde

if you are working on a website with subversion, .. is it a good idea to keep your images out of the file tree? i'm just thinking that this could get to be quite big with things other than text files.

I keep everything in there that I need to create a distribution. So yes, I'd keep the images in there.

[sde]

ok, so the images don't get actually re-created when i commit unless i modify them right? just trying to get a handle on how file size will work.