Common SVN Operations Using SmartSVN

SVN is a version control system often used by programmers to keep track of versions or changes of code. It makes it easy collaborate on code projects and keep a backup of every change you’ve made. Following are some common tasks you may need to perform.

Checking out trunk 

This copies files from your trunk folder in SVN to a folder on your local computer. The folder on your local computer is your “working copy” where  you make changes.

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Creating a branch in SmartSVN

Creating a branch in SVN is like creating a copy of a folder. The command line command is

$ svn copy svn+ssh://host.example.com/repos/project/trunk 
svn+ssh://host.example.com/repos/project/branches/NAME_OF_BRANCH 
-m "Creating a branch of project"

but if you do it in SmartSVN, it’s shown below.

Just make sure you don’t create a folder in your branches folder and then copy the contents of your origin folder into your newly-created branch folder. That would result in a separate branch for each folder within your origin folder as opposed to one branch of your entire origin folder.

Linking to a page’s HTML source

When you create a link in a website, you normally do something like

<a href=”somepage.html”>

This will take the user to somepage.html and download all assets on that page (images, css, javascript, etc) resulting in multiple requests. But, what if you only what to view a page’s HTML source. Well, you can create a link like

<a href=”view-source:somepage.html”>

and this will result in only ONE request and display the page’s HTML source code in your browser.

List of FlowCharts

I’m probably going to have to use one of these at some point.

http://www.lovelycharts.com
http://www.smartdraw.com/
https://www.lucidchart.com
http://www.gliffy.com
http://www.conceptdraw.com/
http://grapholite.com
http://creately.com/

My Favorite Web Development Tools on Windows

Raw Text Editor

  • Sublime Text 2
    • HTML Tidy Plugin
    • HTML Encode Plugin
  • NotePad++

WYSIWYG Editor

  • Dreamweaver (good for updated large tables)

SSH Client

  • mRemoteNG with Putty (for UTF-8 support, select UTF-8 in the Translation setting in Putty)

Terminal / Shell / Console

SOAP Web Service Testing Tool

  • soapUI

Diffing Tool

  • WinMerge
  • BeyondCompare (includes image differ)
  • Araxis (includes image differ)

Bulk File Renamer

  • Rename Expert

File / Directory Listing

(S)FTP / Synching Tool

  • WinSCP

 SVN Client

  • SmartSVN

HTTP Monitor

  • Fiddler
  • HTTPDebugger

Web Inspector

  • Google Chrome Inspector

Raster Graphic Editor

  • Photoshop

Vector Graphic Editor

  • Inkscape

 Screen Capture

  • DuckCapture
  • SnagIt

 Virtual Machine

  • Oracle VirtualBox (for testing different versions of IE)

 Video Encoding

  • Quicktime Pro
  • Miro Video Converter

Amazon S3 Manager

  • CyberDuck

Chrome Extensions

  • JSONView
  • PageRank Status
  • Show Title Tag
  • Web Developer
  • jQuerify
  • AdBlock
  • Pendule
  • Awesome Color Picker
  • Tape
  • CSS Diff

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