Reference:

• Version Control with Subversion (online reference book)
• Apache Subversion FAQ
• A Crash Course in Subversion, Part 2

Properties:

(List properties)
svn proplist main.c
Properties on 'main.c':
  svn:keywords
  svn:eol-style

(Get properties)
svn propget svn:keywords main.c
Author Date Id Revision

(Set ignored file list)
svn propedit svn:ignore .

(Set keywords)
svn propset svn:keywords 'Author Date Id Revision' main.c

(Set end of line style)
(Note: incompatible with configure scripts generated by autoconf 2.62)
svn propset svn:eol-style native main.c

(Set executable)
svn propset svn:executable '*' install-sh

Initial creation:

(local)
svnadmin create --fs-type fsfs /usr/src/svn/project
svn mkdir file:///usr/src/svn/project/trunk -m ''
svn mkdir file:///usr/src/svn/project/branches -m ''
svn mkdir file:///usr/src/svn/project/tags -m ''

Initial checkout:

(HTTP)
svn checkout http://svn.icir.org/bro/trunk/bro bro-svn

(SSH)
svn checkout svn+ssh://fred@nosuch.xyz/usr/src/svn/project/trunk project

(local)
svn checkout file:///usr/src/svn/project/trunk project

Diff:

(context)
svn diff -r70:72 main.c

(straight)
svn diff --diff-cmd diff --extensions --normal -r70:72 main.c

(whitespace)
svn diff --diff-cmd diff --extensions '--normal -i' -r70:72 main.c

(whitespace and ignore case)
svn diff --diff-cmd diff --extensions '--normal -iw' -r70:72 main.c

Tagging:

svn copy file:///usr/src/svn/project/trunk \
    file:///usr/src/svn/project/release-1.3 -m "release-1.3"

Edit a log message:

(Enable on the repo system)
cd /usr/src/svn/project/hooks && \
    cp -pi pre-revprop-change.tmpl pre-revprop-change && \
    chmod +x pre-revprop-change

(Edit last commited version)
svn propedit -rHEAD --revprop svn:log

(Edit in a working copy)
svn propedit -r58 --revprop svn:log

(Edit on the repo system)
svn propedit -r58 --revprop svn:log \
    file:///usr/src/svn/project

(Edit from a different host)
svn propedit -r58 --revprop svn:log \
    svn+ssh://fred@nosuch.xyz/usr/src/svn/project

Revision dates:

svn log -r '{2012-01-19}'
svn log -r '{16:00:00}'

.subversion/config:

(Don't forward ssh creds, X11 or ports)
ssh = ssh -ax -o clearallforwardings=yes

(Default svn keywords)
*.c = svn:eol-style=native;svn:keywords=Author Date Id Revision
*.h = svn:eol-style=native;svn:keywords=Author Date Id Revision

Switch the repository root:

svn switch --relocate \
    file:///usr/src/svn/apache24-conf \
    file:///usr/src/svn/crd-apache24-conf

Undelete a file:

First find the revision you want;

svn log -v | more

Then copy the file into your working tree:

svn copy file:///usr/src/svn/project/trunk/test.c/@666 test2.c
svn copy svn+ssh://nosuch.xyz/svn/project/trunk/test.c/@666 test2.c

Miscellaneous:

svn update
svn commit
svn status
svn info

RCS and CVS to SVN:

• CVS to SVN Crossover Guide
• Migrating from CVS to Subversion
• Example using cvs2svn:

  Create project-cvs which contains ,v files and an empty CVSROOT directory. The output/target directory (project-svn) must not exist. If there are subdirectories, just make sure to move all the ,v files out of the RCS dirs (and delete the empty RCS dirs) Note: Install cvs2svn and coreutils (gsort) ports.

  cvs2svn \
      --svnrepos project-svn \
      --fs-type fsfs \
      --sort=/usr/local/bin/gsort \
      project-cvs
  

RCS:

• RCS Howto (RCS reference)