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Using SVN (Cheetsheet)

1. Import a directory into SVN (this will not do checkout for you! You must do that into another directory):

   $ svn import -m "message" dir_to_import http://server.name/svn_repository_path/new_module_name

2. Checkout a directory from SVN:

   $ svn checkout http://server.name/svn_repository_path/module_name

3. Update local copy from server:

   1. Update your copy with server changes

      $ svn update

   2. Discard your changes

      $ svn revert

4. Commit changes to server:

   $ svn commit [files] [-m 'message']

5. View what's changes/uncommited:

   $ svn status

6. Do file operations on your local copy, which on commit will be applied to server:

   1. add new file:

   $ svn add file

   2. move a file from A to B

      $ svn mv old_filepos new_filepos

   3. copy a file

      $ svn copy src_filepos dest_filepos

   4. remove a file

      $ svn rm file

7. Set the ignore filters on a directory:

   $ svn propedit svn:ignore dir_name

   This will open the $SVN_EDITOR, where you can enter patterns for ignoring files, one per line. Such as "*" for all files in that directory (but not subdirectories), or "path/to/file" to ignore the file named dir_name/path/to/file.

   Note: this doesn't seem to work for subdirs. If you want to specify ignore filters for them, then do so directly, and not from a parent-dir.

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