svn

More often than we'd like to acknowledge we get a need to remove Subversion .svn files in the working copy.

This will do it:

Linus Torvalds recently gave a presentation at Google about a new source-control management (SCM) system he has authored and that is being actively maintained by an open-source community - Git.

If you are a happy user of Subversion, you should take a break right now and watch the video (if you are a "happy" user of CVS, you are hopeless), because it will change and broaden your thinking. Git is not just another version control, it is fundamentally different the way it works.

And it is better! But, how? Ask yourself some questions about your current SCM:

• Do you commit every day? Should you?
• Can you commit if you are offline?
• Do you use branches?
• Do you look forward to merging branches?
• Do you need to have guidelines about naming branches/tags?
• What if your SCM server's disk died?

Now imagine that you have a system where none of these questions give you a shiver. That would be Git.

There are several books about Subversion, some small some huge. Yet, none of them gives a 5 minute get-going guide. Most of the developers are seasoned CVS users, so we do not really need a tirade about version control - just get us going!

And (I can hardly stress this enough) we\'d really like Subversion to authenticate over SSH. Leave that "pasword db" (in essence - open text file) or Apache Module bullcrap, to somebody else. Neither do we need the WebDav for version control - thank you very  much, but no.

The last time I set up a SVN repository (accidentally - my first time, too) it took me looking through 4 different books and a week\'s work on and off. Today I needed to do it, again and I found out that I did not remember much of the last experience. Well, it did not take me a week, but still more than I would want to spend on it. Anyway, to save myself time, in the future and in hopes of this being useful for folks who don\'t want to read 4 books, here is how it is done, on Unix (Windows can get lost, as far as I care):