Subversion at the Command Line for Git Users

I love the command line and have experience with git . I shied away from git svn because it might confuse my team. So here is my list of svn usage and commands and their similar commands in git . This is a work in progress. If anything doesn't seem quite right, please let me know.

Documentation

• svn 1.4 http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.4/svn-book.html
• svn 1.7 http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.7/svn-book.html

Working with remotes

svn checkout <uri> vs git clone <uri>; git pull;

svn update -r238 vs git checkout fder3fd

• checkout a working copy

svn info . vs git remote -v

• show the remote uri
• git can have multiple remotes, svn can have only one

svn ls <uri>/branches --verbose vs git branch --all -vv

• list details of all branches
• in git this includes local and remote branches

svn switch<uri>/branches/<branch_name> vs git checkout <branch_name>

• switch from one branch to another

svn status vs git status

Add / commit / push

svn commit -m "Some message" vs git commit -m "Some message"; git push

• in subversion, a commit is equivalent to a git commit+push
• also, we don't have to stage tracked items

Fixing mistakes

svn revert foo.txt vs git checkout -- foo.txt

svn revert * --recursive vs git reset --hard HEAD

• remove all local modifications
• without touching untracked files

Branching and merging

svn copy <url> branches/mybranch : git checkout -b mybranch

History

svn log -limit 5 vs git log -5

svn log --revision 1:HEAD

svn log --stop-on-copy

• determine the ancestor of a branch
• use to figure out with which branch merges are possible

Using PowerShell

@(svn status) -match '^M'

• list only modified files

@(svn status) -match '(^ L)

• list only locked files

@(svn status) -match '^\?' | % { ($_ -split '\?\s*')[1] } | % { ri $_ -force -recurse } vs git clean -f -d

• remove all untracked files
• without touching tracked files
• @(svn status) wraps the output into an array
• -match '^\?' filters on lines that start with an ?
• ($_ -split '\?\s*')[1] retrieves just the file or directory

(svn help status)[0..25]

• Limit the svn help <command> output to just the lines you want
• for instance, lines zero to 25: