Answer:

Someone has just committed their changes to the svn and you want to find what have changed, just use the command:

# svn diff -rPREV

Answer:

svn will store your credentials information at "~/.subversion/auth/svn.simple/" for caching to help you from typing password on every svn commands. In order to clean this cache, you can

# rm -f ~/.subversion/auth/svn.simple/*

Answer:

To show the svn log for a particular folder, just need to use..

# svn log /data/foo

------------------------------------------------------------------------
r1935 | john@example.com | 2011-11-23 19:05:43 +0800 (Wed, 23 Nov 2011) | 1 line

Fixed the crash issue (Jira 2001)
------------------------------------------------------------------------
r1934 | john@example.com | 2011-11-23 18:47:54 +0800 (Wed, 23 Nov 2011) | 1 line

Added missed files

Answer:

To merge a branch back into the trunk using SVN: (Assume your local corresponding folders are branch and trunk)

1. Get the revision number at which the branch was created

# cd branch
# svn log --stop-on-copy

2. Get the head revision number of your trunk

# cd trunk
# svn update

3. Merge in action

# cd trunk
# svn merge -r <BRANCH_CREATION_REVISION_NUMBER>:<HEAD_REVISION_NUMBER>
               http://example.com/svn/repos/demo/branches/<MY_BRANCH> .

Answer:

Too revert all local changes in your current SVN repository, you can run the following command

# svn st -q | awk '{print $2;}' | xargs svn revert

That is it.

Answer:

To move a directory in a subversion repository, the method we used is very similar to rename a directory under an UNIX shell.

# svn move -m "Move a directory" http://example.com/svn/repos/demo/trunk/foo http://example.com/svn/repos/demo/trunk/bar

Answer:

To list all the files or sub-directories inside a given SVN repository's directory, you can try:

# svn ls http://example.com/svn/repos/demo/trunk

Answer:

To remove files from committed into the SVN in the next commit if you have just added them using the svn add, you should use svn revert

e.g.

# svn revert file.txt

Answer:

In SVN, if you have committed something wrong, how do you rollback it?

You cannot use the svn revert command since it has been commited, you need to do a merge instead

E.g. Rollback from current version to revision 98

# svn merge -r HEAD:98 http://example.com/svn/repos/demo/trunk 
# svn commit -m "Reverting previous bad commit and going back to revision 98"

Answer:

To import files and directories into a SVN repository, you can use the svn import command.

E.g.

Import all files and directories under the current working directory "project1" to a local SVN repository

# cd /data/project1
svn import file:///data/svn/project1