[HLUG] subversion and inkscape

[j michaelson]

hi jeff,

the command they gave for downloading a working copy was....
svn checkout https://svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/inkscape/inkscape/trunk
inkscape
...which by the look of it is just the trunk bit. so no problems there.

what a great bit of kit, it's going to save me a lot of internet time.

thanks for the help.
john.





On 6/10/06, Jeff Tupholme <jeff at repositive.com> wrote:
> Hi John,
>
> > ... and i'm under the impression that if i get subversion running on
> > my pc and then i'd only have to download it once and from then i'd
> > just have to update the bits that had changed, which would be a more
> > efficient use of internet access than downloading the whole thing
> > every time.
>
> Correct.
>
> > there was a bit that worried me, where it said...
> > "SVN stores source code in a shared repository (in our case on
> > Sourceforge's server). The repository contains all past and present
> > versions of the code, and is shared by everyone."
> > ... this doesn't mean that the first time i run subversion it will
> > have to download "all past and present versions of the code", does it?
>
> No, you just download the latest revision by default the first time.
> Then on subsequent downloads you get the differences between the one
> you have and the latest one at that point in time. If something is
> broken in the latest revision you can also use Subversion to go back
> to a previous revision.
>
> The thing to watch out for when you do your initial download
> ('checkout') is what part of the tree you point at. Most Subversion
> projects have trunk, branches & tags at the top level, then
> subdirectories under branches & tags. You probably just want the
> trunk, otherwise you will get a lot of extra stuff where people have
> taken snapshots of the code for historical reasons or to develop
> specialised versions.
>
> Hope that helps.
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Jeff
>
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