Tag: Source Control
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My Subversion Backup Script
In the name of all that’s good – backup your Subversion repository! Your repo is the history of the code that runs your business. Make sure you back that beast up. You can safely back it up while developers are using it by running the dump command. Take a dump I like to script my…
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Merging Changes from Branches in SVN
This is a tip for TortoiseSVN Source Control and covers branching and merging. If you don’t know what that is, read this nice help document. We often need to try out an idea without mucking up the main line of development. To do this we copy the code out into a “branched” version. I use these…
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Subversion Tip – What Has Changed
Have you ever wanted to know what others on your team have changed BEFORE you get the latest changes? Well, you can. From Windows Explorer, use TortoiseSVN’s context menu to “show log”. From the log messages report, you can right-click on the most recent revision and “Compare with Working Copy.” You’ll get a window like…
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Updating a Project and Editing Conflicts with TortoiseSVN
In TortoiseSVN, when getting the latest of multiple files, you may that there were conflicts in the merge process. Before you close this window, just scroll up and right click on the file with the conflict. Select “Edit conflicts” and use the Merge tool to resolve them.
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Compare 2 Local Files with TortoiseSVN
You can compare 2 different files using SVN Diff! Just go into Windows Explorer, select 2 files (ctrl click) and right click on one of them. You’ll get a context menu like this: Just click SVN Diff (or you might see TortoiseSVN > Diff instead). You’ll get a nice side-by-side comparison of the differences in…