Daily Operations

Basic Work Cycle

Subversion has numerous features, options, bells, and whistles, but on a day-to-day basis, odds are that you will use only a few of them. In this section, we'll run through the most common things that you might find yourself doing with Subversion in the course of a day's work.

The typical work cycle looks like this:

1. Update your working copy.

1. Make changes.

1. Examine your changes.

1. Possibly undo some changes.

1. Resolve conflicts (merge others' changes).

1. Commit your changes.

Since TortoiseSVN in a Windows client integrated with Windows Explorer, these are the underlying commands that will execute when clicking on the different action icons.

For further explanation, please install TortoiseSVN and use the Help File to get the latest description of commands.