Subversion for Advanced Users Training Course

Subversion design philosophy and its advantages

• The typical copy-modify-merge scenario and strategies for resolving simple conflicts.
• Establishing user policies and guidelines to ensure smooth and consistent team collaboration.
• Alternatives to the copy-modify-merge method, such as lock and unlock mechanisms.

Branching and merging

• Understanding when to create branches and the various applications of branching.
• Techniques for resolving conflicts and performing merges effectively, including absorbing changes from different directions.
• Leveraging new Subversion features to facilitate branching and merging.
• Strategies for encouraging or discouraging local branching among users.

Daily digests and revision reviews

• Utilizing mailing lists, RSS feeds, and digests.
• Using blame and delegation features.

Subversion properties

• Built-in properties, properties with SVN: prefixed keywords, and global properties.
• Designing and implementing these properties.
• Creating customized SVN properties tailored to specific company needs.
• Creative applications of customized SVN properties.
• Understanding the limitations of SVN properties (i.e., being mindful of constraints and avoiding over-engineering).

Subversion hooks

• Types of hooks.
• General usage of pre-installed hooks.
• Creating custom hooks.
• Thinking creatively and imaginatively about hook applications.

Secondary SVN server

• Use cases for backup and fail-safe recovery.
• Supporting automatic background tasks.
• Facilitating temporary arrangements (e.g., different locations).

Integration with other tools

• Issue tracking systems (e.g., Bugzilla, Track, Jira).
• Content management systems (e.g., wikis).