svn co svn+ssh://cascade.cs.ubc.ca/imager/project/animation/svn-depot/ubcmocap

The 'co' means 'check out', which will get the current project. This will get (and create a sub-directory for) the ubcmocap project in your current working directory.

The 'svn+ssh' means use the svnserve command on the server side, in addition to filtering things through the ssh protocol. This will ask you for your password, unless you've setup your ssh so that you don't have to type it (for instructions on doing that check out http://www.csua.berkeley.edu/~ranga/notes/ssh_nopass.html but replace 'authorized_keys2' with 'authorized_keys' in the instructions).

Once you've done that, you don't need to remember where it came from, you can simply do things like:

$ svn update (get's / merges latest changes) $ svn diff (see what's different on your machine compared to the depot) $ svn commit -m "my log message" (commit your changes to the project) $ svn rm filename.cpp (remove 'filename.cpp' from version control)

To import a new project do the following:

1) Create a temporary directory to hold your project 2) Cleanup temporary / backup files that you don't want saved (*.obj, *.o, *~) 3) Go to the root of the temporary directory of the project you are adding (e.g. cd ~/Temp/thesis/ubcmocap) 4) Use the following subversion command to import (it's all one line)

svn import -m "A one liner about the project" svn+ssh://cascade.cs.ubc.ca/imager/project/animation/svn-depot/

DON'T use spaces in the project names! That just makes it hard to use from the Linux/Unix side of things.

Once you've imported it you now have to check it out ... The files you've just imported can be deleted (and should be ... don't have multiple copies hanging around).

Change to your project directory. Check the project out with (again, it's all one line)

svn co svn+ssh://cascade.cs.ubc.ca/imager/project/animation/svn-depot/

This will create a sub-directory "nameofproject" in the current directory and get the files that you just imported.

By always routing the connection via ssh we make it transparent as to whether you are on campus or at some remote location. The only requirement for access will be (a) an UBC computer science account, and (b) being a member of the 'imager' group. I had to make a link on /cs/public/bin to the appropriate svnserve command on cascade ... hopefully it will work for you guys too. Let me know if you have trouble with it.

I'm not entirely sure how to point at the svn server from the Windows side of things using TortoiseSVN, though the above commands work with the Cygwin version of subversion straight out of the box.

To use the svn client from SunOS (cascade) or Linux (okangan, local machine), use the 'use' command.

$ use subversion-1.3.1

This will setup your PATH and MANPATH appropriately for the operating system. See http://www.cs.ubc.ca/local/computing/unix/software.shtml for more information about the 'use' command.

For Windows use either the Cygwin command line client, or install TortoiseSVN and use that (more instructions to follow). The free Subversion book, clients, and a variety of other information are all present on http://subversion.tigris.org/

-- MichielVanDePanne - 05 May 2006