svnconv_remember

The purpose of this file is to function as a memo aid for the ones of us who will assist our collegues in the transition aftermath.

Read the documentation.

Procedure

Check whether you have a new enough svn:

• svn --version

The version should preferably be at least 1.4 (but earlier versions ought to work, and 1.3 does work)

The checkout command is:

svn co https: //gtsvn.uit.no/repos/trunk gtsvn

Copy existing non-cvs-files (in the cvs dev catalogues to the corresponding svn)

Placement of the svn catalogue

We here assume it is $HOME/gtsvn/.

Some of us have other systems. Thus, in all our scripts, we operate with an alias GTHOME. We urge all to put the line

export GTHOME=~/gtsvn

in their .bashrc file (or any other address than gtsvn if you would prefer that). In that way we have a flexible system.

.bashrc-file

1. The paths of the type $HOME/gt etc. should be changed to $HOME/gtsvn/gt etc
2. The lo, osmj, etc. aliases must be corrected, e.g. so that ~/gt must be ~/gtsvn/gt
3. The up alias must be corrected, e.g.
   1. alias up="cd $HOME/gtsvn/ && svn up"
4. Some paths in .emacs must be corrected:
   1. (load "~/gtsvn/gt/script/emacs/namelex")
   2. (load "~/gtsvn/gt/script/emacs/correct")
5. The makefiles in st must get updated script cat reference
6. The dict/../src catalogues must have their *.sh executable
7. All files in the gt/script must be executables.

Password

All users have received a password. It will be used once, and changing it is thus not that crucial. If someone wants a password to remember, they may have it changed by a superuser:

htpasswd -m /etc/subversion/svn-auth-file sally
New password: *******
Re-type new password: *******
Adding password for user sally

Commands

Most commands are familiar from cvs:

• svn up (note that this only updates, it does not tell anything abot local M status)
• svn ci -m "Log message" filename
• svn log filename

Then there are new commands. The most important is:

• svn status = command to check for status (local and central modifications, will list all and only modified files)
  • svn status has two modes:
    • one fast, without network access - it will check only whether you have modified files locally: svn status
    • one slower, with network access - it will also check against the repository: svn status -u (-u as in Update, to check whether an Update is needed)

And remember the svn book!