Subversion for Advanced Users Training Course

Subversion Design Philosophy and Key Advantages

• Understanding the typical copy-modify-merge workflow and how to effectively resolve simple conflicts.
• Establishing user policies and guidelines to ensure smooth and consistent team collaboration.
• Implementing complementary strategies to the copy-modify-merge method, such as locking and unlocking.

Branching and Merging Strategies

• Identifying the appropriate timing for creating branches and exploring various use cases.
• Learning to resolve conflicts and merge changes wisely, including absorbing changes from different directions.
• Leveraging newer Subversion features to enhance branching and merging processes.
• Strategies for encouraging or discouraging local branching by users.

Daily Digests and Revision Review

• Utilizing mailing lists, RSS feeds, and digests for monitoring.
• Performing blame analysis and managing task delegation.

Managing Subversion Properties

• Overview of built-in properties, properties with SVN: prefixed keywords, and global properties.
• Best practices for designing and utilizing these properties.
• Defining custom SVN properties for specific corporate needs.
• Exploring creative applications of customized SVN properties.
• Understanding the limitations of SVN properties and avoiding over-engineering.

Configuring Subversion Hooks

• Understanding different hook types.
• General usage of pre-shipped hooks.
• Developing self-defined hooks.
• Applying creative and imaginative approaches to hook implementation.

Secondary SVN Servers

• Implementing secondary servers for backup and fail-safe recovery.
• Using secondary servers for automatic background tasks.
• Establishing temporary arrangements, such as for different locations.

Integration with Other Tools

• Connecting with issue tracking systems (e.g., Bugzilla, Track, Jira).
• Integrating with content management systems (e.g., Wiki).