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Introduction to Revision Control

Introduction to Revision Control

The goals of this class are to enable you to:

Recognize the neccessity of revision control
Place individual files under RCS control
Check out, modify and check-in files
Place project directories under Subversion control
Check out, modify, update and commit files and directories under SVN control

Assumptions

It is assumed that you are already familiar with command line tools and editing files in Unix/Linux/OSX environment.

Example commands are shown like this. Output from commands is shown like this
Optional items are shown in brackets, [ like this ]

Some descriptions in these notes have more detail available, and are denoted like this:

Permission is granted to download and use these notes and example scripts, as long as all copyright notices are kept intact. Some of the examples are taken from texts or online resources which have granted permission to redistribute.

These notes are updated from time to time. The "development" set of notes are http://northstar-www.dartmouth.edu/~richard/classes/revision_control (Dartmouth only)

Richard Brittain, Dartmouth College.
© 2007 Dartmouth College.

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