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To do this, right-click the Bookmarks pane on the left and click 'Add Existing Repository.'. Viewing repositories without downloading their entire contents

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It may take a while to download from large projects, but you will know that the download is complete when RapidSVN displays 'Status: Ready' in the log at the bottom of the window. In the dialog that appears, specify the URL of the repository, and the folder that will hold your copy of the repository, and leave the next checkmarks as they are.

To add a repository, right-click the pane and click 'Checkout New Working Copy.'. Then open RapidSVN, and take note of its Bookmarks pane on the left. RapidSVN can be installed by a package manager on most Unix-based operating systems or compiled by source, and it has a typical straight-forward installer on Windows.įirst, create an empty folder anywhere on your computer that you think would be great to hold the repository's contents. The revision number of the repository then increases by 1. A changeset includes the user's IP address and the date and also includes room for a comment by the user.Ī user applies a revision to the repository by committing a changeset and optionally a descriptive comment. To commit to the repository is to upload your own changes to the repository.Ī changeset is the group of changes that were made to the repository in a single revision.

#Rapidsvn url specifications update

To update your copy of the repository is to update the files which you have to the latest revision. To check out a copy of the repository is to download any or all of the files in the repository, and to check out a working copy is to download an entire clone (ie. The server is the physical machine that you connect to over the Internet to read from the repository. SVN stands for Subversion and is a protocol (look that up if you need to know!) for making revisions to files on a network.Ī repository is the folder set up on the server containing the project's files. Just like torrents require a simple terminology in your head like seeds, peers, and trackers, SVN has its share of a couple words that you'll need to know.

#Rapidsvn url specifications software

SVN is designed to be able to make multiple changes in a single revision, however, and RapidSVN's click-to-select type of interface is what sets it apart from both the command line and GUI integration software such as TortoiseSVN. And other times, you decide to upload your own set of changes, similar to editing a Wikipedia article, and this may or may not require an account with the server to fulfill that action, similar to Wikipedia articles which are locked from editing by visitors. Much of the time, you connect to the server to download the newest files to your machine, similar to reading a Wikipedia article.

2.2 Viewing repositories without downloading their entire contentsĪn SVN repository is like a wiki for file editing.