Using SVN with GoogleCode Project Hosting

At Leevio, we are going to use SVN or Subversion a lot. For demonstration and playing with the SVN system I chose Google Code Project hosting since it’s free and feature packed. I am a beginner at operating SVN and I had to get a sandbox SVN server to practise what I learn.

I already had the http://masnun.googlecode.com ready for this. So, I started trying out SVN on this account feeling relaxed that no matter what changes I make, no serious harm will be done.

SVN is pretty easy in fact. I read the “SVN Book” and “The Visual Guide to SVN”. None of them helped me grab SVN like the shell command — “svn help”. It was self explanatory and had a list of all available commands.

To start, I had to create a local repository or better said a local mirror of the project. I did the following:

It created a directory named “masnun” inside my linux home directory after I authenticated with my googlecode password.

Now I was ready to add files. So I copied a file named “quotes” into the /home/masnun/masnun (the local mirror) directory and typed in:

I got a text editing environment to write the changelog. After typing in a message, I pressed Ctrl+O to write out and then Ctrl + X to quit the editor.

Now the changes were reflected in the local copies, I had to sync the server. So I used:

And it transmitted all the data to the server 🙂

Now, I made some changes and updated the file using the following command:

Again, wrote the changelog and then :

I liked the simplicity and hated that I spent up much time reading theories telling me why SVN replaced CVS 🙁

Well, now I decided to delete the file:

That was it… Easy !