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Use this tag for questions about SVN (Subversion), a centralized open-source revision control system distributed under the Apache License.

Apache Subversion

Apache Subversion (SVN) is a centralized version control system, available as free software under the .

When Subversion was first conceived in 2000, the design goal was to fix CVS. Since 2009, Subversion has been an Apache project.
See its own SVN repo in svn.apache.org or its mirror on GitHub.

Subversion can be used from the command line, but also has clients for , and . A popular client, which integrates into Windows-Explorer, is TortoiseSVN. A list of SVN clients with comparison can be found here.

References

The Subversion book is an excellent reference source, cite it in your SVN answers! Please use links to the latest stable release of the book (not to the nightly builds to avoid broken links).

Frequently-asked questions

If you are new to Apache Subversion or in general please take some time to read the SVNBook. The must-read articles are:

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Best general SVN Ignore Pattern?

What is the best (or as good as possible) general SVN ignore pattern to use? There are a number of different IDE, editor, compiler, plug-in, platform, etc. specific files and some file types that "overlap" (i.e. desirable for some types projects…
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Subclipse svn:ignore

I'm using subclipse for connecting to my SVN. There are some folders and files I would like to add to svn:ignore, but it's grayed out. Is there an easy way to get subclipse to ignore files and directories?
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Can you do a partial checkout with Subversion?

If I had 20 directories under trunk/ with lots of files in each and only needed 3 of those directories, would it be possible to do a Subversion checkout with only those 3 directories under trunk?
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Undo svn add without reverting local edits

I accidentally ran svn add * and added a bunch of files that shouldn't be in the repository. I also have local edits in some files that I want to keep. Is there a simple way to just undo the svn add without reverting the local edits? The main…
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List files committed for a revision

How do I list the file names/paths that are committed, using a revision number?
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examining history of deleted file

If I delete a file in Subversion, how can I look at it's history and contents? If I try to do svn cat or svn log on a nonexistent file, it complains that the file doesn't exist. Also, if I wanted to resurrect the file, should I just svn add it…
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How to display a specific user's commits in svn log?

How to display a specific user's commits in svn? I didn't find any switches for that for svn log.
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Better way to revert to a previous SVN revision of a file?

I accidentally committed too many files to an SVN repository and changed some things I didn't mean to. (Sigh.) In order to revert them to their prior state, the best I could come up with was svn rm l3toks.dtx svn copy -r 854 svn+ssh://
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Does svn have a `revert-all` command?

If I want to throw away all of my changes, and return to the code that is on the repository, I do the following: $ rm -fr * $ svn up This is easy enough, but I'm wondering if there is a single command that will accomplish this, something like: $…
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How do you branch and merge with TortoiseSVN?

How do you branch and merge with Apache Subversion using the TortoiseSVN client?
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Update Item to Revision vs Revert to Revision

I've started to use Subversion with TortoiseSVN. If I open up the log and right click on an old revision I see two options that sound like they roll back to an older version: "Update item to revision" and "Revert to this revision". I understand that…
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Good Linux (Ubuntu) SVN client

Subversion has a superb client on Windows (Tortoise, of course). Everything I've tried on Linux just - well - sucks in comparison....
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How to use SVN, Branch? Tag? Trunk?

I was googling around a little bit and couldn't find a good "beginners" guide to SVN, not in the meaning of "how do I use the commands" rather; How do I control my source code? What I'd like to clear up is the following topics: How often do you…
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rsync exclude according to .gitignore & .hgignore & svn:ignore like --filter=:C

Rsync includes a nifty option --cvs-exclude to “ignore files in the same way CVS does”, but CVS has been obsolete for years. Is there any way to make it also exclude files which would be ignored by modern version control systems (Git, Mercurial,…
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Is it possible to have a Subversion repository as a Git submodule?

Is there a way to add a Subversion repository as a Git submodule in my Git repository? Something like: git-svn submodule add https://svn.foo.com/svn/proj --stdlayout svn-project Where https://svn.foo.com/svn/proj points to a Subversion…
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