Subversion switch

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Subversion switch

• Moving from CVS to SVN

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What is subversion

• open-source version control system
• evolved from CVS to fix some disadvantages

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Differences between CVS - SVN

• Directory versioning
• True version history
• Atomic commits
• Versioned metadata
• Choice of network layers
• Consistent data handling
• Efficient branching and tagging
• Hackability

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Advantages SVN

• Branching and tags
• Full version history
• Increased speed
• Successor of CVS
• SVN URLS

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General SVN structure

• Repository
• Trunk (active development)
• Tags (releases)
• Branches (feature or release branches)
• No modules as used by Compose
• Different repositories
• Paths

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Compose structure

• trunk/
• Core/
• ComposeStarCore
• ComposeStarRuntimeCore
• DotNET/
• ComposeStarDotNET
• ComposeStarRuntimeDotNet
• StarLight/
• StarLightDotNET (branched from ComposeStarDotNET)
• Java/
• C/
• branches/
• tags/

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Migration

• SVN hosting at SourceForge
• Conversion of CVS to SVN
• Install TortoiseSVN (and SubEclipse etc)
• Read doc/wiki
• Perform checkout of certain paths
• /trunk/Core
• /trunk/DotNET

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Working with SVN

• Use trunk for daily work
• Feature branch
• Create a branch
• Perform own work in this branch
• Update regularly trunk to branch
• When finished, merge branch back to trunk
• Release branch
• Create a branch for a release
• Test branch and update trunk and branch
• Tag and release
• Save branch for possible further use