Objectives & Outcomes

At the end of the training course students will have a basic knowledge of Tortoise Subversion allowing them to use it as the version-control solution for their development projects.

Pre-Requisites

• No previous Subversion knowledge is required

Module 1: Tortoise Introduction

• What Is TortoiseSVN?
• Benefits Of TortoiseSVN
• Downloading TortoiseSVN
• Installing TortoiseSVN
• Creating Branches
• Tortoise Documentation

No Lab Exercise For This Module

Module 2: Introduction to Subversion

• Centralised Data Storage & Associated Common Issues
• Version Control Models
• Lock-Modify-Unlock
• Copy-Modify-Merge
• The Subversion Repository
• The Subversion Working Copy

No Lab Exercises For This Module

Module 3: Svn Checkout

• When To Use Svn Checkout
• Command Syntax
• Command Switches
• Sparse Checkouts

No Lab Exercises For This Module

Module 4: Svn Add

• Svn Add & Svn ignore
• Bringing Artefacts Under Version Control
• When To Use Add?
• How To Add An Element
• Adding A File As Part Of A Commit
• Ignoring Files

No Lab Exercises For This Module

Module 5: Svn Commit

• Tortoise Commit
• How Commit Works?
• When To Use Svn Commit
• How To Commit With Tortoise
• Options

No Lab Exercises For This Module

Module 6: Svn Update

• Tortoise Update
• What Happens During An Update
• When To Use Svn Update
• Performing An Update
• Updating To A Revision
• Update Output
• Show-log Output

No Lab Exercises For This Module

Module 7: Status

• "Check For Modifications"
• Option Output
• Further Options
• When To Use "Check For Modifications"

No Lab Exercises For This Module

Module 8: Move(Rename)

• What Does Svn Move(Rename) Do?
• Right-click Drag & Drop
• Move/Copy Versioned Files Here
• Move/Copy and Rename Versioned Files Here
• Performing A Rename

No Lab Exercises For This Module

Module 9: Delete

• What Does Svn Delete Do?
• When To Use Svn Delete
• How A Delete Is Viewed

No Lab Exercises For This Module

Module 10: Copy

• Making Copies With TortoiseSVN
• When To Make A Copy
• The "Branch/Tag" Dialog
• Why Tag Or Branch?
• Cheap Copies

No Lab Exercises For This Module

Module 11: Diff

• What Does Svn Diff Do?
• When To Use Svn Diff
• Comparing WC With BASE
• Performing A Manual Diff
• Base? Theirs? Mine?
• Diff With URL
• Command Output

No Lab Exercises For This Module

Module 12: Revert

• What Does Svn Revert Do?
• When To Use Svn Revert
• Reverting A Directory Contents

No Lab Exercises For This Module

Module 13: Merge

• What Does Svn Merge Do?
• Why Do We Need To Merge?
• "Out-of-date" Error
• Conflicts
• Resolving Conflicts
• Merging Conflicts

No Lab Exercises For This Module

Module 14: Changelists

• What Does Svn Changelists Do?
• When To Use Svn Changelists
• Using Svn Changelists with Other Commands
• Command Syntax
• Command Switches

No Lab Exercises For This Module

Objectives & Outcomes

At the end of the training course students will have knowledge of more advanced development concepts and the associated Tortoise Functionality.

Pre-Requisites

• Basic knowledge of Window interfaces
• Tortoise Subversion Fundamentals

Module 1: Branching

• What Are Branches?
• Branches & The Revision Graph
• Where Are Branches Created?
• Trunk
• Why Use Branches
• Creating Branches
• The Branch/Tag Dialog
• Branch With The Repository Browser
• Redundant Branches

No Lab Exercise For This Module

Module 2: Merging

• What Is Merging?
• How Merging Works
• Merging Algorithm
• When To Merge
• How To Merge
• Tracking Merging
• Performing a Tortoise Merge

No Lab Exercises For This Module

Module 3: Switching

• What is Switching?
• Why Switch?
• How To Switch?
• What Happens During A Switch?
• Multiple Switching
• Resetting The Working Copy

No Lab Exercises For This Module

Module 4: Tags

• What Is A Tag?
• Why Not Commit To A Tag?
• When To Create A Tag
• Where To Create A Tag
• Creating A Tag
• Write-Protecting A Tag

No Lab Exercises For This Module

Module 5: Properties

• What Are Properties?
• Versioned Properties
• Applying Versioned Properties
• Recursive Properties
• Applying Multi-line Properties
• Revision Properties
• Auto-Props

No Lab Exercises For This Module

Module 6: Log Message Dialog

• Launching The Log Message Dialog
• The Log Message Dialog
• Compare With Working Copy
• "Unified Diff"
• The Repo Browser
• Create Tag From This Revision
• Update Item To This Revision
• Revert To This Revision
• Compare Revisions
• Statistics

No Lab Exercises For This Module

Module 7: Hints, Tips & Tricks

• Configuring The Client Area
• The Log Message Dialog
• Setting TortoiseSVN preferences
• Creating a Patch
• Applying a Patch
• The Relocate Command
• Checking Who Holds A Lock
• Revert To This Revision
• Diff'ing/merging *.doc and *.xls files

No Lab Exercises For This Module

Objectives & Outcomes

At the end of the training course students will have knowledge of how to effectively maintain a live Tortoise Subversion environment in order to provide the best support for end users.

Pre-Requisites

• Basic knowledge of Window interfaces
• Tortoise Subversion Fundamentals
• Tortoise Subversion Advanced

Module 1: Repository Overview

• The Repository
• Server Side
• Client Side
• Inside The Repository
• How The Repository Works
• How A Change Is Applied?
• FSFS vs BDB
• Per-Project Repositories
• Multi-Project Repositories

No Lab Exercise For This Module

Module 2: Repository Creation, Organisation & Data Import

• Repository Creation & Organisation
• Where Repository Should Be Created?
• Repository Naming Conventions
• How To Create A Repository
• Importing Data

No Lab Exercises For This Module

Module 3: Viewing The Repository

• Viewing The Repository
• Svnadmin
• Svnlook

No Lab Exercises For This Module

Module 4: Creating Backups

• Why Create Backups?
• Where To Create Backups?
• When To Create Backups?
• Events
• Backup Strategies
• Full Backups
• Incremental Backups
• Hot Copies
• Backing Up Revision Properties

No Lab Exercises For This Module

Module 5: Loading & Filtering Backups

• What Is A Dump File?
• Loading A Dump File
• Into An Empty Repository
• Loading An Incremental Dump File
• Filtering A Dump File
• Include Paths
• Exclude Paths
• Manually Filtering A Dump File

No Lab Exercises For This Module

Module 6: Svnsync

• What Is Svnsync?
• Setting Up A Destination Repository
• Creating An Empty Repository
• Setting Pre-revprop-change
• Running svnsync init
• Starting A Sync
• Updating rev-props

No Lab Exercises For This Module

Module 7: Svnstat

• What Is Svnstat?
• Svnstat Requirements
• Installing Svnstat
• Running Svnstat
• Output
• HTML Output
• Date Filtering
• Automating Svnstat

No Lab Exercises For This Module

Module 7: Apache2 Installation

• What Is The Apache HTTP Server?
• Installing Apache
• Download
• Installation
• Configuration
• The httpd.conf File

No Lab Exercises For This Module

Module 8: Installing & Configuring Subversion

• Installing Subversion
• Configuring Apache
• Creating A Test Respository
• Troubleshooting

No Lab Exercises For This Module

Module 9: Basic Authentication

• User File
• Creation
• Additional Users
• Group File
• Creation
• The Apache Conf File
• Testing
• Testing Authentication

No Lab Exercises For This Module

Module 10: Authorization

• The Access File
• Referencing The Access File in The httpd.conf File
• Testing

No Lab Exercises For This Module

Module 11: Subversion Write-Through Proxy

• What Is The Write-Through Proxy?
• Setting Up The Master
• Setting Up The Slave
• Setting Up The Sync

No Lab Exercises For This Module

Objectives & Outcomes

At the end of the training course students will have knowledge of how to effectively use Subversion to provide version-control for their development projects.

Pre-Requisites

• Basic knowledge of Window interfaces (including Windows command line interface)
• No previous Subversion knowledge is required

Module 1: Introduction to Subversion

• Centralised Data Storage & Associated Common Issues
• Version Control Models
• Lock-Modify-Unlock
• Copy-Modify-Merge
• The Subversion Repository
• The Subversion Working Copy

No Lab Exercise For This Module

Module 2: Svn Checkout

• When To Use Svn Checkout
• Command Syntax
• Command Switches
• Sparse Checkouts

No Lab Exercises For This Module

Module 3: Svn Add

• What Does Svn Add Do?
• When To Use Svn Add
• Command Syntax
• Command Switches

No Lab Exercises For This Module

Module 4: Svn Commit

• What Does Svn Commit Do?
• When To Use Svn Commit
• Command Syntax
• Command Switches

No Lab Exercises For This Module

Module 5: Svn Update

• What Does Svn Update Do?
• Conflict Resolution
• When To Use Svn Update
• Command Syntax
• Command Switches
• Command Output

No Lab Exercises For This Module

Module 6: Status

• What Does Svn Status Do?
• When To Use Svn Status
• Command Syntax
• Command Switches
• Command Output

No Lab Exercises For This Module

Module 7: Move(Rename)

• What Does Svn Move(Rename) Do?
• When To Use Svn Move(Rename)
• Command Syntax
• Command Switches

No Lab Exercises For This Module

Module 8: Delete

• What Does Svn Delete Do?
• When To Use Svn Delete
• Command Syntax
• Command Switches

No Lab Exercises For This Module

Module 9: Copy

• What Does Svn Copy Do?
• When To Use Svn Copy
• Command Syntax
• Command Switches

No Lab Exercises For This Module

Module 10: Diff

• What Does Svn Diff Do?
• When To Use Svn Diff
• Command Syntax
• Command Switches
• Command Output

No Lab Exercises For This Module

Module 11: Revert

• What Does Svn Revert Do?
• When To Use Svn Revert
• Command Syntax
• Command Switches

No Lab Exercises For This Module

Module 12: Merge

• What Does Svn Merge Do?
• When To Use Svn Merge
• Command Syntax
• Command Switches
• Command Output

No Lab Exercises For This Module

Module 13: Resolved

• What Does Svn Resolved Do?
• When To Use Svn Resolved
• Command Syntax
• Command Switches

No Lab Exercises For This Module

Module 14: Changelists

• What Does Svn Changelists Do?
• When To Use Svn Changelists
• Using Svn Changelists with Other Commands
• Command Syntax
• Command Switches

No Lab Exercises For This Module

Objectives & Outcomes

At the end of the training course students will have knowledge of more advanced development concepts and the associated command set.

Pre-Requisites

• Basic knowledge of Window interfaces (including Windows command line interface)
• Subversion Fundamentals Command Line

Module 1: Branching

• What Are Branches?
• Where Are Branches Created?
• Trunk
• Why Use Branches
• Creating Branches
• From a Specific Revision
• From a Working Copy
• Redundant Branches

No Lab Exercise For This Module

Module 2: Merging

• What Is Merging?
• How Merging Works
• Merging Algorithm
• When To Merge
• How To Merge
• Merging Switches
• Tracking Merging

No Lab Exercises For This Module

Module 3: Switching

• What is Switching?
• Why Switch?
• How To Switch?
• What Happens During A Switch?
• Multiple Switching
• Resetting The Working Copy

No Lab Exercises For This Module

Module 4: Tags

• What Is A Tag?
• Why Not Commit To A Tag?
• When To Create A Tag
• Creating A Tag
• Write-Protecting A Tag

No Lab Exercises For This Module

Module 5: Properties

• What Are Properties?
• Versioned Properties
• Applying Versioned Properties
• Removing Versioned Properties
• Applying Multi-line Properties
• Revision Properties
• Auto-Props

No Lab Exercises For This Module

Module 6: Log Message Dialog

• Examining Working Copy
• Svn Status
• Output
• Extra Options
• Svn Show-Updates
• Commands To Examine History
• svn log
• svn diff
• svn cat
• svn list

No Lab Exercises For This Module

Objectives & Outcomes

At the end of the training course students will have knowledge of how to effectively maintain a live Subversion environment in order to provide the best support for end users.

Pre-Requisites

• Basic knowledge of Window interfaces (including Windows command line interface)
• Subversion Fundamentals Command Line
• Subversion Advanced Command Line

Module 1: Repository Overview

• The Repository
• Server Side
• Client Side
• Inside The Repository
• How The Repository Works
• How A Change Is Applied?
• FSFS vs BDB
• Per-Project Repositories
• Multi-Project Repositories

No Lab Exercise For This Module

Module 2: Repository Creation, Organisation & Data Import

• Repository Creation & Organisation
• Where Repository Should Be Created?
• Repository Naming Conventions
• How To Create A Repository
• Importing Data

No Lab Exercises For This Module

Module 3: Viewing The Repository

• Viewing The Repository
• Svnadmin
• Svnlook

No Lab Exercises For This Module

Module 4: Creating Backups

• Why Create Backups?
• Where To Create Backups?
• When To Create Backups?
• Events
• Backup Strategies
• Full Backups
• Incremental Backups
• Hot Copies
• Backing Up Revision Properties

No Lab Exercises For This Module

Module 5: Loading & Filtering Backups

• What Is A Dump File?
• Loading A Dump File
• Into An Empty Repository
• Loading An Incremental Dump File
• Filtering A Dump File
• Include Paths
• Exclude Paths
• Manually Filtering A Dump File

No Lab Exercises For This Module

Module 6: Svnsync

• What Is Svnsync?
• Setting Up A Destination Repository
• Creating An Empty Repository
• Setting Pre-revprop-change
• Running svnsync init
• Starting A Sync
• Updating rev-props

No Lab Exercises For This Module

Module 7: Svnstat

• What Is Svnstat?
• Svnstat Requirements
• Installing Svnstat
• Running Svnstat
• Output
• HTML Output
• Date Filtering
• Automating Svnstat

No Lab Exercises For This Module

Module 8: Apache2 Installation

• What Is The Apache HTTP Server?
• Installing Apache
• Download
• Installation
• Configuration
• The httpd.conf File

No Lab Exercises For This Module

Module 9: Installing & Configuring Subversion

• Installing Subversion
• Configuring Apache
• Creating A Test Respository
• Troubleshooting

No Lab Exercises For This Module

Module 10: Basic Authentication

• User File
• Creation
• Additional Users
• Group File
• Creation
• The Apache Conf File
• Testing
• Testing Authentication

No Lab Exercises For This Module

Module 11: Authorization

• The Access File
• Referencing The Access File in The httpd.conf File
• Testing

No Lab Exercises For This Module

Module 12: Subversion Write-Through Proxy

• What Is The Write-Through Proxy?
• Setting Up The Master
• Setting Up The Slave
• Setting Up The Sync

No Lab Exercises For This Module

Objectives & Outcomes

At the end of the Subversion Fundamentals course students will understand how to effectively use Subversion for day-to-day software development activities. For those who require in-depth information on techniques such as branching and merging strategies as well as other advanced topic areas, we recommend Subversion Fundamentals is followed by the Clearvision Subversion Advanced course.

Pre-Requisites

• Basic knowledge of Window interfaces (including Windows command line interface)
• No previous Subversion knowledge is required

Module 1: Introduction to SCM

• To demonstrate the principles of Software Configuration Management
• To understand the benefits of strong SCM practices
• To identify the symptoms of weak SCM practices

No Lab Exercise For This Module

Module 2: Introduction to Subversion

• What is Subversion?
• About Subversion repositories
• About Subversion clients
• Important Subversion concepts
• Browsing Subversion repositories
• Checking out a Subversion project
• A developers work cycle

Lab Exercise: Introduction to Subversion

• Introduction to laboratory environment

Module 3: Making changes in the Working Copy Part 1

• Status of the Working Copy
• The Log Viewer
• Adding elements
• Renaming and moving elements
• Modifying/reviewing elements

Lab Exercise: Making changes in the Working Copy Part 1

• Exploring differences between two working copies

Module 4: Making changes in the Working Copy Part 2

• Updating from a repository
• Changelists
• Committing modifications
• Conflict resolution
• Working copy locks and clean up

Lab Exercise: Making changes in the Working Copy Part 2

• Using update and commit and exploring their behaviours

Module 5: Basic Branching and Tagging

• Why do we use branches and tags?
• When to create branches and tags?
• What to do with redundant branches?
• How to organise and name branches and tags
• How to create Subversion branches and tags
• Tagging a working copy

Lab Exercise: Basic Branching and Tagging

• Creating a branch and exploring it with the repository browser

Module 6: Switching

• What is switching?
• Why would you switch?
• How do you perform a switch?
• What happens when you switch?
• Multiple switches and tagging

Lab Exercise: Switching

• Switching between branches and observing the effects

Module 7: Merging

• What is merging?
• How does merging work?
• The Subversion merging algorithm
• Merge tracking

Lab Exercise: Merging

• Merging a branch and observing the effects

Objectives & Outcomes

At the end of the Subversion Advanced training course students will have knowledge of advanced Subversion techniques, essential for effective version control with Subversion. For those who want to understand how to support and maintain a live Subversion environment, we recommend that this course is followed by the Subversion Administration course.

Pre-Requisites

• Basic knowledge of Window interfaces (including Windows command line interface)
• Subversion Fundamentals Training Course

Module 1: Going Further With the Working Copy

• Import and Export
• Peg revisions and move
• Locking and unlocking
• Blame
• Creating and applying patches
• TortoiseSVN Settings
• The Subversion Runtime Area

Lab Exercise: Introduction to Subversion

• Locking
• Import and Export
• Restoring a deleted item
• Creating and applying a patch
• Modifying the Context menu
• Modifying the Colour Scheme

Module 2: Properties

• What is a property?
• Versioned versus unversioned properties
• Managing properties
• Subversion special properties
• TortoiseSVN special properties
• Other special properties
• Auto-props

Lab Exercise: Properties

• Setting and using svn:ignore and svn:keywords
• Creating Bug tracking properties

Module 3: Advanced Merging

• Merging and merge tracking
• Cherry picking
• Blocking
• The reflective merge problem
• Reintegration

Lab Exercise: Advanced Merging

• Blocking
• Rebasing and Reintegration

Module 4: Advanced Branching

• Branching Strategies
• Unstable trunk
• Stable trunk
• Agile
• Branch when needed
• Shortlived branches

Lab Exercise: Advanced Branching

• Viewing branch structures

Module 5: Organising Repositories, Vendor Branches & Externals

• Components
• Vendor Branches and svn_load_dirs.pl
• Controlling Builds
• Organisation of Projects/Repositories
• Multi-project versus Single-project Repositories
• Geographical Location of Servers/Users and Multi-site Solutions
• Using externals

Lab Exercise: Organising Repositories, Vendor Branches & Externals

• Using Externals
• Updating a vendor branch with svn_load_dirs.pl

Module 6: Using the Command Line

• TortoiseSVN vs. Command Line
• Common svn options
• Important command line commands
• Interactive conflict resolution at the command line
• Automating TortoiseSVN
• SubWCReV

Lab Exercise: Using the Command Line

• Repeat of earlier exercises - but using the command line
• Exercises chosen by delegates

Objectives & Outcomes

At the end of the Clearvision Subversion Administration training course students will have knowledge of how to effectively maintain a live Subversion environment in order to provide the best support for end users.

Pre-Requisites

• Basic knowledge of Window interfaces (including Windows command line interface)
• Subversion Fundamentals Training Course
• Subversion Advanced Training Course

Module 1: Subversion Architecture and Repository Basics

• The Repository Context [WebDav|https://svn.clearvision-cm.com/insight/WebDav] and DeltaV
• FSFS versus BDB
• How FSFS implements
• Locking
• Transactions
• Revisions and revision properties

Lab Exercise: Subversion Architecture and Repository Basics

• Study the Behaviour of Transactions

Module 2: Installs

• Comparison of available servers
• Client server compatibility
• Apache SVN Server Installation/Configuration
• Includes Subversion install
• svnserve server Installation /Configuration
• Visual Server SVN Demo

Lab Exercise: Installs

• Apache server install
• svnserve install

Module 3: Repository Creation

• Review of administration commands
• svn subcommands used during administration
• svnadmin sub commands
• svnlook sub commands
• svnsync
• svndumpfilter
• Repository Creation in Detail
• Process
• Authentication and Authorisation
• Templates, data import, hooks and properties

Lab Exercise: Repository Creation

• Setting up Apache users and groups manually

Module 4: Backing up and restoring the Repository

• Why/where/when to create backups
• Creating full and incremental backups
• using svnadmin dump
• using svnadmin hotcopy
• Pros and cons of available option
• Restoring backups
• Backing up and restoring revision properties
• Automating backups

Lab Exercise: Backing up and restoring the Repository

• Backups Using Hotcopy and Incremental Dumpfiles

Module 5: Going Further with the Dumpfiles and Repository Replication

• How to Merge repositories
• How to Split repositories
• Editing text in a dumpfile
• Rolling back the repository
• Read Only Repository Replication
• Write Through Proxy Replication

Lab Exercise: Going Further with the Dumpfiles and Repository Replication

• Merge two repositories
• Replicating a repository

Module 6: Hooks

• Understand the purpose of 'svnlook'
• Review of 'svnlook options
• how hooks work
• What events call hooks
• Review of available hooks

Lab Exercise: Hooks

• Exploring svnlook
• Interrogating Transaction Contents
• A Hook to Back up Revision Properties