1251881Speter 2251881Speter Subversion, a version control system. 3251881Speter ===================================== 4251881Speter 5362181Sdim$LastChangedDate: 2016-05-31 14:07:51 +0000 (Tue, 31 May 2016) $ 6251881Speter 7251881SpeterContents: 8251881Speter 9251881Speter I. A FEW POINTERS 10251881Speter II. DOCUMENTATION 11251881Speter III. PARTICIPATING IN THE SUBVERSION COMMUNITY 12251881Speter IV. QUICKSTART GUIDE 13251881Speter V. CONVERTING FROM CVS 14251881Speter 15251881Speter 16251881Speter 17251881SpeterI. A FEW POINTERS 18251881Speter 19251881Speter For an overview of the Subversion project, visit 20251881Speter 21251881Speter http://subversion.apache.org/ 22251881Speter 23251881Speter Once you have a Subversion client you can get the latest version 24251881Speter of the code with the command: 25251881Speter 26251881Speter $ svn co http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/subversion/trunk subversion 27251881Speter 28251881Speter 29251881Speter 30251881SpeterII. DOCUMENTATION 31251881Speter 32251881Speter The main documentation is the Subversion Book - an on-line version 33251881Speter can be found at: 34251881Speter 35251881Speter http://svnbook.red-bean.com/ 36251881Speter 37251881Speter It is written in DocBook XML, and the sources can be found at: 38251881Speter 39309511Speter http://svn.code.sf.net/p/svnbook/source/trunk/ 40251881Speter 41251881Speter If you wish to build the documentation from source, read the 42309511Speter en/README file within the book source. 43251881Speter 44251881Speter 45251881Speter 46251881SpeterIII. PARTICIPATING IN THE SUBVERSION COMMUNITY 47251881Speter 48251881Speter First, read http://subversion.apache.org/docs/community-guide/ 49251881Speter It describes Subversion coding and log message standards, as well 50251881Speter as how to join discussion lists. 51251881Speter 52251881Speter Talk on IRC with developers: irc.freenode.net, channel #svn-dev. 53251881Speter 54251881Speter Read the FAQ: http://subversion.apache.org/faq.html 55251881Speter 56251881Speter 57251881Speter 58251881SpeterIV. QUICKSTART GUIDE 59251881Speter 60251881Speter See the final section of the first chapter of the Subversion Book. 61251881Speter 62251881Speter 63251881Speter 64251881SpeterV. CONVERTING FROM CVS 65251881Speter 66251881Speter If you're a CVS user trying to move your CVS history over to 67251881Speter Subversion, then be sure to visit the 'cvs2svn' project: 68251881Speter 69251881Speter http://cvs2svn.tigris.org 70251881Speter 71251881Speter You can get the latest released version of the cvs2svn converter 72251881Speter from the project downloads area: 73251881Speter 74251881Speter http://cvs2svn.tigris.org/servlets/ProjectDocumentList?folderID=2976 75251881Speter 76251881Speter Please note that the cvs2svn project is a *separate* project from 77251881Speter Subversion. If you have problems with cvs2svn or are confused, 78251881Speter please email the cvs2svn project's mailing lists, not the 79251881Speter Subversion lists. 80251881Speter 81251881Speter Finally, be sure to see Appendix B in the Subversion Book. It 82251881Speter contains a very quick overview of the major differences between 83251881Speter CVS and Subversion. 84251881Speter 85