When you want to see what svn update is about to do you may try

svn update --dry-run

But this doesn’t work.

Kdesvn and Kompare are two very nice tools providing rich GUI’s for svn and file comparison respectively.

In order to show the difference between two revisions using Kompare, change the default external diff settings to:

It’s often handy to look at the changes made by a commit ignoring whitespace changes.

Version conflicts to be aware of

Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex) now ships with Subversion 1.5

You can’t use a svn 1.4 client and a svn 1.5 client on the same working copy.

Having just upgraded to Ubuntu 8.10 my key observation is that it’s important to read the release notes first.

http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/releasenotes/810

There are a few bugs which have affected me

I just discovered a nifty little utility

Often working copies are only partially updated, this command gives a very quick command-line summary of the state of the working copy.

It’s not as rich an output as kdesvn which will colour code all the updateable files, but its a standard part of svn so should always be available.

I’ve been using open source software and developing php for a decade or so now - but until recently the two have been fairly separate.

Now I’m working on Drupal I need to keep track of my work - and merge in the changes from ‘upstream’.

here’s the useful info I found …

Shamelessly copied from:

Configure Apache SSL and Subversion in Debian in 683 seconds

This just saved me lots of time and I want to keep a copy for later - just in case…

Mar 26 2005

(The apache2+SSL part was taken from the article Debian, Apache2 and SSL by Ian Miller)