SVN
Tutorial
for
Windows
Users
Download
and
Install
SVN
Client
Download
the
Tortoise
SVN
client
from
h;p://tortoisesvn.net/
Depending
on
your
operaCng
system,
you
might
choose
the
32-bit
or
64-bit
versions.
Install,
restart.
Right
click
on
the
Start
bu;on
(XP
users)
or
click
on
the
Explore
icon
on
the
taskbar
(Windows
7
users)
Create
a
local
repository
Create
a
new
directoy
somewhere
(perhaps
under
My
Documents ).
I
called
mine
SVN_Repo.
Right-click
on
the
SVN_Repo
folder.
The
menu
that
pops
up
will
have
a
couple
of
new
items:
the
SVN
Checkout
and
TortoiseSVN.
Choose
TortoiseSVN.
Click
on
Create
repository
here
from
the
menu
that
pops
up.
Do
the
rst
Check
Out
Once
the
repository
is
successfully
created,
right-click
on
the
SVN_Repo
directory
again,
and
choose
SVN
Checkout
The
program
will
ask
you
for
the
repo
address.
For
the
LA-SiGMA
project,
it
is
h;ps://svn.cct.lsu.edu/repos/proposals/ epscor09
Enter
the
user-id
and
password
provided
by
CCT.
The
checkout
process
now
starts,
and
creates
an
exact
replica
of
the
SVN
le
system
on
your
local
drive.
You
should
do
this
step
while
connected
to
a
fast
connecCon,
because
our
repo
has
become
quite
large.
You
should
allow
a
fair
amout
of
Cme.
[I
did
this
at
home,
on
a
54
Mbps
wireless,
and
it
took
about
2.5
hours.]
Directory
Structure
Aeer
a
successful
checkout,
you
will
see
that
several
folders
have
appeared
under
SVN_Repo.
Mine
is
shown
on
lee.
Note
the
red
!
(exclamaCon)
and
the
green
check
marks
appearing
on
the
directory
icons.
The
red
symbol
on
the
top
level
directory
(epscor09)
means
that
one
or
more
of
the
subdirectories
contain
a
le
that
I
have
changed,
making
my
local
version
dierent
from
the
copy
on
the
SVN.
The
green
check
marks
indicate
that
all
the
les
in
those
folders
have
not
been
changed
locally
since
the
last
update.
Working
with
the
SVN:
Update
and
Commit
When
working
with
the
SVN
on
a
daily
basis,
there
are
just
two
things
to
remember:
update,
and
commit.
Before
you
start
working
on
any
le
in
the
SVN,
it
is
important
to
make
sure
you
have
the
most
up-to-date
versions
of
all
les.
For
this,
you
would
do
an
update
from
the
SVN
menu:
right
click
on
the
directory
icon,
and
choose
SVN
Update.
The
update
process
copies
only
the
les
that
have
changed
since
the
last
update.
The
commit
process
copies
les
you
may
have
changed
locally
to
the
central
SVN
(so
that
others
can
get
it
by
updaCng).
The
screen-shot
of
an
update
process
I had deliberately deleted four files from my local SVN repository prior to this update. You can see that the update process restored those files from the central SVN. Note that we are now at revision # 1049.
Commiing
changes
-
1
If
you
make
changes
to
a
le,
or
if
you
create
a
new
le,
it
needs
to
be
commi;ed
(not
in
the
psychiatric
sense
in
most
cases)
so
that
others
can
see
it.
In
the
screen
shot
to
the
right,
I
have
deliberately
modied
one
of
the
les.
Note
that
it
is
marked
by
a
red
exclamaCon
mark
all
the
way
up
the
directory
tree
to
the
top
level.
Note
that
all
the
other
les
(and
sub-folder)
have
green
check
marks,
indicaCng
that
their
contents
are
consistent
with
the
central
SVN.
If
you
create
a
new
le,
it
will
not
have
any
mark
on
it,
which
is
a
clue
that
the
central
SVN
knows
nothing
about
that
le s
existence.
Commiing
Changes
-
2
The
screen
shot
shows
that
I
am
about
to
commit
the
le
that
I
changed.
Commiing
Changes
-
3
When
you
choose
the
SVN
Commit
menu,
a
window
pops
up
in
which
you
can
type
a
note
that
explains
what
you
have
changed.
This
note
will
become
part
of
the
SVN
change
log
and,
if
the
SVN
is
e-mail
enabled,
an
automaCc
e- mail
is
generated
to
all
authorized
users
alerCng
them
of
your
change.
Now we are at revision # 1050.
One
more
slide
on
commit
If
all
goes
well
with
the
commit,
when
I
refresh
my
directory,
the
red
exclamaCon
mark
will
change
to
a
green
check
mark,
telling
me
that
I
have
achieved
a
harmonious
union
with
the
great
mother
SVN.
You
may
note
that
there
is
sCll
a
red
exclamaCon
mark
on
the
high
level
directory
epscor09.
This
never
goes
away
on
my
desktop
machine.
I
think
it
is
an
arCfact
of
my
64-bit
client
not
interacCng
with
the
central
SVN.
I
run
the
32-bit
client
applicaCon
on
my
laptop
and
it
does
not
have
this
problem.
Clean
up
SomeCmes,
things
go
wrong,
and
conicts
arise.
One
way
to
resolve
the
conict
is
to
use
the
Clean
up
menu
from
TortoiseSVN.
If
that
does
not
work,
you
should
copy
the
conicted
les
(note
the
yellow
triangle
marks)
to
another
directory,
delete
them
from
the
local
SVN
Repo,
and
do
an
Update.
That s
it!
Have
fun.
