Development and submission steps using SVN - OOP344 20111

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Checkout team repository

1. create a directory on the local machine (this happens usually only once on each workstation for development)
2. checkout the repository into the directory

   using GUI (TortoiseSVN) right click on the directory and select SVN Checkout

   by doing this you have a copy of the whole repo on your computer.

Create your workspace

1. create a directory in branches using your seneca id

   add this directory to the repository (right click on the dir and select TortoiseSVN/add)

   commit this dir to repo so it will be saved on the server (right click on the dir and select SVN Commit

   note that this dir is referred as your workspace

branch the trunk for development

• branch the trunk into a dir under your workspace in branches

  how to do goes here

• update your repository to get the branch on your local machine

start coding and complete the task

1. code
2. compile
3. test
4. compile
5. commit (commit changes back to repo on server)

merge the branch back to trunk

1. make sure branch is commited
2. right click on trunk and select TortoiseSVN/merge
3. select your branch
4. merge by default settings and resolve possible conficts

Test and commit trunk

1. recompile and test merged trunk
2. update trunk status on wiki team page to commiting

   if the status is already commiting wait for it to be done

3. commit trunk
4. resolve possible problems
5. commit again
6. update trunk status on wiki team page to commited

Resources

• Hints for Using SVN to collaborate on school projects