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TortoiseSVN 1.7 Beginner's Guide

By : Lesley Harrison
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TortoiseSVN 1.7 Beginner's Guide

By: Lesley Harrison

Overview of this book

<p>TortoiseSVN is a Subversion client that gives you quick and easy access to all of Subversion's features. Perhaps you are aware of the importance of version control in software development or document management, but do you know how to use TortoiseSVN for efficient project management? Here is the first book about version control with TortoiseSVN.</p> <p><em>TortoiseSVN 1.7 Beginner's Guide</em> provides a comprehensive coverage of TortoiseSVN in its entirety. It is easy to follow the instructions with clear explanations and screenshots. This book will introduce the important features of TortoiseSVN and at the same time, give you a deeper and clearer understanding of the basic functionality, providing the answers to many questions that are encountered when using TortoiseSVN. TortoiseSVN is a client to SVN, but with this book and TortoiseSVN, you don't need to know anything about SVN, or wade through boring version control theory to get started using one of the most powerful version control applications in the world.</p> <p>The book begins by introducing you to the basics of TortoiseSVN and tools needed to get started with version control. It then dives deep into details, covering the methods available to check and commit changes and keep track of data. Chapters cover conflict management, branching and merging of a project to avoid disturbing the main development version, using TortoiseSVN with popular bug-tracking systems, and much more.</p> <p>By following the practical steps in this book, you will learn every aspect of using TortoiseSVN—from setting up the subversion server, to working with revision logs, and providing security and protection for your subversion server.</p>
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
TortoiseSVN 1.7
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Time for action – relocating your working copy


Relocating your working copy is made easy by TortoiseSVN:

  1. Navigate to your working copy in explorer.

  2. Right-click on the folder, and select TortoiseSVN | Relocate:

  3. In the Relocate window that appears, enter the new path to the repository:

  4. Click on OK.

  5. If a password is required, you will be prompted for one. Enter it, and click OK.

  6. The relocation process may take several minutes if your project is large.

What just happened?

You have just pointed your working copy to a different repository location. When you do this, Subversion changes all references to the old repository so that they point to the new one. The files in the working copy are unchanged. This means that Mowbray can now check in the changes that he made, as if nothing had changed while he was away.

Be careful when using the relocation option. You should use it only in cases where the repository address has changed. Using relocate at the wrong time could corrupt your working copy. A corrupt working...