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Switching from SVN to git

By On November 12, 2008 · Leave a Comment

I’ve been using SVN for several years now, so I’ve been partial to it, and reluctant to switch to another form of source control. I’m very comfortable with it, and I’ve got dozens of scripts to augment it and help me deal with it’s shortcomings, as well as a few blog posts.

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Problems Installing Subversion From Source On CentOS

By On March 26, 2008 · 5 Comments

I was setting up a new server for someone, and encountered this error while I was trying to build svn

/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lexpat

Now, while I can do some things on that a sys admin can, I am by no means a sys admin. I have only installed svn a handful of times, and [...]

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Using SVN to Manage a Website

By On May 31, 2007 · 1 Comment

We’ve tried several ways of using SVN to manage Answerbag. Here’s a brief overview.

We work out of the trunk for very small projects (under a few hours) We create branches to deal with larger projects, and merge those changes back into the trunk when they are done and tested. When we do a code [...]

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Helpful SVN Script For Adding all Unknown files to Repository

By On May 30, 2007 · 1 Comment

I use SVN from the command line a lot. I also hate typing things over and over. I wrote this script to add all files to a repository that are not already in there.

svn status | awk ‘{if ($1 == “?”) print $2 }’ | xargs svn add

I have [...]

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How to roll back commits to an earlier version of a repository in SVN

By On April 6, 2007 · 6 Comments

I’ve always wanted to know how to do this, and for some reason I always had a hard time finding out how. I needed to rollback a change I had committed to my SVN repository.

The way you rollback to an earlier version of your repository is to do a reverse merge.

Here’s the [...]

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