Subversion admin

Notes about our needs:

We are a small group. (2 main programmers, occasional help from ~3 others. ~3 managers who occasionally request changes or additions to content.)

Our project is a web site. We are mostly using svn:

• to back up our work
  
• to document changes we make (communication/collaboration)
  
• for the security of being able to roll back changes that don't work out
  

SVN best practice is to:

• keep working files in a URL like repository/trunk (will do)
  
• keep parallel efforts in repository/branches (The only time we would have parallel efforts is in the case of a long, drawn-out redesign. We intend never to do that again, rather just incrementally evolve.)
  
• keep "snapshots" in repository/tags (yeah, maybe)
  

1. Create a repository:

[steve@www steve]$ svnadmin create myrepository
[steve@www steve]$ ls -lp myrepository/
total 28
drwxr-xr-x    2 steve    web          4096 Dec  7 15:19 conf/
drwxr-xr-x    2 steve    web          4096 Dec  7 15:19 dav/
drwxr-sr-x    5 steve    web          4096 Dec  7 15:19 db/
-r--r--r--    1 steve    web             2 Dec  7 15:19 format
drwxr-xr-x    2 steve    web          4096 Dec  7 15:19 hooks/
drwxr-xr-x    2 steve    web          4096 Dec  7 15:19 locks/
-rw-r--r--    1 steve    web           229 Dec  7 15:19 README.txt
[steve@www steve]$ svn mkdir file:///home/steve/myrepository/tags -m 'create steve/myrepository/tags/'

Committed revision 1.
[steve@www steve]$ svn mkdir file:///home/steve/myrepository/branches -m 'create steve/myrepository/branches/'

Committed revision 2.
[steve@www steve]$ svn mkdir file:///home/steve/myrepository/trunk -m 'create steve/myrepository/trunk/'

Committed revision 3.
[steve@www steve]$ ls -lp myrepository/
total 28
drwxr-xr-x    2 steve    web          4096 Dec  7 15:19 conf/
drwxr-xr-x    2 steve    web          4096 Dec  7 15:19 dav/
drwxr-sr-x    5 steve    web          4096 Dec  7 15:20 db/
-r--r--r--    1 steve    web             2 Dec  7 15:19 format
drwxr-xr-x    2 steve    web          4096 Dec  7 15:19 hooks/
drwxr-xr-x    2 steve    web          4096 Dec  7 15:19 locks/
-rw-r--r--    1 steve    web           229 Dec  7 15:19 README.txt

Huh? No changes? Oh wait...

[steve@www steve]$ svn list file:///home/steve/myrepository
branches/
tags/
trunk/

2. Add a project:

[steve@www steve]$ svn mkdir file:///home/steve/myrepository/trunk/htdocs -m 'create htdocs project'

Committed revision 4.
[steve@www steve]$ svn import css file:///home/steve/myrepository/trunk/htdocs -m 'import css/'
Adding         css/ttStyles.css
Adding         css/tt_squirrel.css
Adding         css/media.css
Adding         css/oldSite.css

Committed revision 5.

[steve@www steve]$ svn list file:///home/steve/myrepository/trunk/
htdocs/
[steve@www steve]$ svn list file:///home/steve/myrepository/trunk/htdocs
media.css
oldSite.css
ttStyles.css
tt_squirrel.css

Note that what I probably intended was to make a css folder in the htdocs project in myrepository...