The Top Ten Subversion Tips for CVS Users

1. Use status to find out your ... status

  $ svn status --show-updates --verbose
         *        44        23    sally     README
                  44        30    sally     INSTALL
         *        44        35    harry     trout.c
  D               44        19    ira       fish.c
  A                0         ?     ?        shrimp.c
  M      *        44        32    sally     anemone.c
                  44        36    harry     things/rocks.txt

2. Remember, you can move things around

  $ svn move -m "Move a file" http://svn.red-bean.com/repos/foo.c \
                              http://svn.red-bean.com/repos/bar.c

3. Tag and branch by copying

  $ svn copy -m "Tag rc1 rel." http://svn.red-bean.com/repos/trunk \
                               http://svn.red-bean.com/repos/tags/1.0rc1

4. "Revert" instead of "delete and update"

  $ rm I-made-a-boo-boo.txt
  $ cvs up I-made-a-boo-boo.txt
  U  I-made-a-boo-boo.txt

  $ svn revert I-made-a-boo-boo.txt
  Reverted 'I-made-a-boo-boo.txt'

5. Don't fear your version control system

SUBVERSION WILL NEVER EVER EVER DO ANYTHING TO YOUR DATA UNLESS YOU ASK IT TO.

  $ svn propset svn:eol-style native halibut.c

6. Log, log, log your log

Subversion's log command is so much more powerful than CVS log
that it merits a mention.

7. Quickly undo a mistaken commit

  $ svn merge -r 303:302 http://svn.example.com/repos/calc/trunk
  U  oyster.c

8. Resurrect deleted items

 $ svn copy --revision 807 \
              http://svn.red-bean.com/repos/trunk/perch.c ./perch.c

9. Switch to a branch without checking out a new working copy

  $ svn switch http://svn.red-bean.com/repos/branches/vendors-with-fix .
  U  myproj/foo.txt
  U  myproj/bar.txt
  U  myproj/baz.c
  U  myproj/qux.c
  Updated to revision 31.

10. Browse or even mount your repository