Notes - Subversion Tips

Checking out from a machine you have SSH access to

Construct the URL from protocol "svn+ssh", the hostname and the full path to the repository and tree:

dleigh@:~> svn co svn+ssh://yallara/home/d/dleigh/repository/PP2B/ 
dleigh@yallara.cs.rmit.edu.au's password:
A  project/AUTHORS
A  project/code
A  project/README
A  project/style.txt
Checked out revision 4.
dleigh@:~>

You can commit, update and so on as normal - subversion will remember the URL you used to access the repository.

Keyword expansion

By default keyword expansion is disabled in subversion - you can explicitly enable it per-file as follows:

svn propset svn:keywords "Id LastChangedDate Author" file1.c file2.java...

You can enable it by default when adding certain filetypes by setting the following in your config file. In Unix, this is "~/.subversion/config"; in Windows, this is "C:\Documents and Settings\[username]\Application Data\Subversion\config", assuming user profiles are located in C:\Documents and Settings.

In [miscellany] section:

enable-auto-props = yes

In [auto-props] section:

*.c = svn:keywords=Id LastChangedDate Author
*.cpp = svn:keywords=Id LastChangedDate Author
*.java = svn:keywords=Id LastChangedDate Author
(etc...)

Automatic commit email

In the hooks/ subdirectory of your repository create a file called post-commit (no extension) which should look similar to:

#!/bin/sh

REPOS="$1"
REV="$2"

/full/path/commit-email.pl "$REPOS" "$REV" -s SVN:project-name user1@.abc.net user2@.abc.net...

This requires the commit-email.pl script that comes with subversion is properly set up on your system. You can find it in /usr/local/share/subversion/hook-scripts/commit-email.pl on FreeBSD 5.x.