SVN Usage

SVN Properties

Line Endings

When you check files out of SVN it can update the line endings for you. In "native" mode it will give CR/LF line endings on Windows and LF line endings on *nix. If you want to force a line ending, set it with this command:

svn propset svn:eol-style LF myfile.c

Executables

If a file is an executable and you don't want SVN to change the line endings, tag it as an executable with this command:

svn propset svn:executable ON somescript

SVN Externals

If you want to chain checkouts together, use the SVN external property. Do this while in the directory in which you want the new checkout to appear:

svn propset svn:externals 'commonFiles http://svn.url.com/src/trunk' .

Checking out a sparse tree

Sometimes you only want to check out parts of a large SVN tree. You can do that one checkout at a time, but then the checkouts are not all tied together (for instance, you could not "svn up" the whole tree).

mkdir myLocalRepo

cd myLocalRepo

svn checkout https://my.repo.com/trunk --depth=files

cd trunk

svn up tree3

svn up tree5

svn up tree9

Now you have an SVN local copy of a sparse part of the main repo. If you want to add more to it, just repeat the above steps.

cd myLocalRepo

svn checkout https://my.repo.com/branches --depth=files

cd branches

svn up branch6

 Since the "myLocalRepo" directory is linked to the SVN repo, you can go to that directory and type "svn up" and update the entire checked out sparse tree (without it pulling down the portions you have not yet checked out).