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How to connect a live site to Subversion

Posted by Andrew Wed, 08 Feb 2006 22:37:00 GMT

Subversion source control management is a big improvement over CVS. But newcomers often ask, “yes, but how do I set up a live website with SVN?”

Here is the step by step procedure.

REPOSITORY LAYOUT

Create the layout you prefer, e.g. /trunk /branches /tags .

For discussion of repository layouts, see the Subversion Book

remotely on your client

$ svn mkdir -m "adding web root" https://svn1.avlux.net/YOUR_REPOS/homesite
$ svn mkdir -m "adding trunk dir" https://svn1.avlux.net/YOUR_REPOS/homesite/trunk
$ svn mkdir -m "adding branches dir" https://svn1.avlux.net/YOUR_REPOS/homesite/branches
$ svn mkdir -m "adding tags dir" https://svn1.avlux.net/YOUR_REPOS/homesite/tags

or locally on the server

SSH into your domain (you will be prompted to authenticate on each operation):

$ svn mkdir -m "adding web root" https://svn1.avlux.net/YOUR_REPOS/homesite
Authentication realm: <https://svn1.avlux.net:80> avlux.net Subversion Repository
Password for 'avluxnet': <Enter your SSH password>
Authentication realm: <https://svn1.avlux.net:80> avlux.net Subversion Repository
Username: <Enter your SVN username>
Password for 'SVN_user': <Enter your SVN password>

INITIAL IMPORT

remotely on your client

cd to the root dir of your website on your own box

svn import . https://svn1.avlux.net/YOUR_REPOS/homesite/trunk -m 'initial import'

or locally on the server

SSH into you domain

cd to ./rails/ for a Ruby on Rails site,

or to ./httpdocs/ for a non-RoR site

svn import . https://svn1.avlux.net/YOUR_REPOS/homesite/trunk -m 'initial import'

FIRST CHECKOUT

SSH into your domain

cd to ./rails/ for a Ruby on Rails site,

or to ./httpdocs/ for a non-RoR site

$ svn checkout https://svn1.avlux.net/YOUR_REPOS/homesite/trunk ./

SUBSEQUENT UPDATES FROM REPOSITORY TO LIVE SITE (WORKING COPY)

SSH into your domain

cd to ./rails/ for a Ruby on Rails site,

or to ./httpdocs/ for a non-RoR site

$ svn update