Net-SNMP SVN Usage Page

External documentation:

• SourceForge Doc on SVN
• SVN Book

Basic Operations

Checking out the main-line code base:

 svn co https://net-snmp.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/net-snmp/trunk/net-snmp net-snmp

Checking out a branch (e.g. V5-4-patches):

 svn co https://net-snmp.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/net-snmp/branches/V5-4-patches/net-snmp net-snmp

Updating/Merging to the current repository version:

 svn update

Development related commands

Seeing if your local checkout has modifications:

 svn status

Seeing if your local checkout is up-to-date (without updating it):

 svn -u status

Comparing your local file to the repository file:

 svn diff FILE

Committing your changes (requires write access)

 svn commit FILE

Repository analysis Commands

Listing what's available in the remote repository:

 svn list https://net-snmp.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/net-snmp/tags/

Figuring out who modified a line in a file (cvs annotate):

 svn blame FILE

Tagging and branching

Creating a tag:

 svn copy https://net-snmp.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/net-snmp/trunk/net-snmp https://net-snmp.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/net-snmp/tags/Ext-5-5/net-snmp

Creating a branch:

 svn copy https://net-snmp.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/net-snmp/trunk/net-snmp https://net-snmp.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/net-snmp/branches/V5-5-patches/net-snmp

Tricks and Tips

Creating a partial checkout (top down approach)

(this was found on the GCC SVN setup page):

Start by checking out the svn repository:

 svn co https://net-snmp.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/net-snmp/

Then replace any unneeded parts with some nice and fairly empty directory:

 svn switch https://net-snmp.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/net-snmp/trunk/net-snmp/win32/bin net-snmp/historic
 svn switch https://net-snmp.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/net-snmp/trunk/net-snmp/win32/bin net-snmp/tags

The main disadvantage of this approach is that it involves downloading the full SVN repository (which is fairly large!), before removing the unwanted elements

Creating a partial checkout (bottom up approach)

Alternatively, check out the portions that you're actually interested in:

 svn co https://net-snmp.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/net-snmp/trunk
 svn co https://net-snmp.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/net-snmp/branches

then create a suitable top-level SVN configuration. The simplest way to do this is to copy an existing '.svn' directory:

 cd trunk
 tar cf - .svn | (cd .. ; tar xf -)
 cd ..

Then tweak this top-level copy as follows:

 edit the file '.svn/all-wcprops' and delete the string "/trunk"
 edit the file '.svn/entries', delete the string "/trunk",
    replace the string "module-entries" with "trunk",
    replace the string "net-snmp" with "branches",
    delete the section referring to "htdocs"

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