Working with svn externals

Viewing current svn externals recursively. svn propget svn:externals -R Add a svn external svn propset svn:externals ‘conf http://sample.org/trunk’ . Note that conf folder should not already present in the svn. Also note the current working directory notation ‘.’ at the end. This will create a conf folder which is an svn external in current directory. [...]

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Some Common SVN Issues

Problem : svn: warning: Working copy ‘xxx’ locked Solution : Run a svn cleanup. If that fails.. 1. Get a svn diff of local modifications to a patch. svn diff > patch.diff 2. Delete folder containing locked resource path from the file system. Do not use svn delete. rm <folder-containing-locked-resource> 3. Run a svn update [...]

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Shooting My Self in the foot with SVN

Why didn’t I know this before? . http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1521332/is-there-a-way-to-recover-from-an-accidental-svn-revert

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Removing cached SVN credentials

This post describes how cached SVN credentials can be removed. Credentials are stored in SVN auth disk area. They have to be removed in order to remove cached SVN credentials. $ ls ~/.subversion/auth/svn.simple/ 5671adf2865e267db74f09ba6f872c28 3893ed123b39500bca8a0b382839198e 5c3c22968347b390f349ff340196ed39 These files hold the credentials for a certain domain. If you take a look inside a file the domain [...]

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SVN Tree Conflicts

Have you ever encountered this during a SVN update? Summary of conflicts: Tree conflicts: 1 If so what you have at your hand is a conflict which has occurred due to conflicting file structure changes like file moves and deletions. You can force the removal of unwanted file with this command, svn remove –force file-to-be-removed Then conflict [...]

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