Repository Administration
Windows shell—using the cd command. At all times, the command prompt will show you what revision (prefixed by rev:) or transaction (prefixed by txn:) you are currently examining, and at what path location in that revision or transaction. You can change your current revision or transaction with the setrev and settxn commands, respectively. As in a Unix shell, you can use the ls command to display the contents of the current directory, and you can use the cat command to display the contents of a file.
Example 5.1. Using svnshell to Navigate the Repository
<rev: 2 />$ ls |
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sally < |
2.0.1> |
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Nov |
15 |
11:50 |
A/ |
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harry < |
1.0.2> |
56 |
Nov |
19 |
08:19 |
iota |
<rev: |
2 />$ cd A |
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<rev: |
2 /A>$ ls |
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REV |
AUTHOR |
NODE-REV-ID |
SIZE |
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sally |
< |
4.0.1> |
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Nov |
15 11:50 |
B/ |
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sally |
< |
a.0.1> |
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Nov |
15 |
11:50 |
C/ |
1 |
sally |
< |
b.0.1> |
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Nov |
15 |
11:50 |
D/ |
1 |
sally |
< |
3.0.1> |
23 |
Nov |
15 |
11:50 |
mu |
<rev: 2 /A>$ cd |
D/G |
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<rev: 2 /A/D/G>$ ls |
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AUTHOR |
NODE-REV-ID |
SIZE |
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sally |
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e.0.1> |
23 |
Nov 15 |
11:50 pi |
1 |
sally |
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f.0.1> |
24 |
Nov 15 |
11:50 rho |
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sally |
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g.0.1> |
24 |
Nov 15 |
11:50 tau |
<rev: 2 /A>$ cd |
../.. |
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<rev: 2 />$ cat |
iota |
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<rev: 2 />$ setrev 1; cat iota This is the file 'iota'.
<rev: 1 />$ exit
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As you can see in the previous example, multiple commands may be specified at a single command prompt, separated by a semicolon. Also, the shell understands the notions of relative and absolute paths, and will properly handle the . and .. special path components.
The youngest command displays the youngest revision. This is useful for determining the range of valid revisions you can use as arguments to the setrev command—you are allowed to browse all the revisions (recalling that they are named with integers) between 0 and the youngest, inclusively. Determining the valid browsable transactions isn't quite as pretty. Use the lstxns command to list the transactions that you are able to browse. The list of browsable transactions is the same list that svnadmin lstxns returns, and the same list that is valid for use with svnlook's - -transaction option.
Once you've finished using the shell, you can exit cleanly by using the exit command. Alternatively, you can supply an end-of-file character—Control-D (though some Win32 Python distributions use the Windows Control-Z convention instead).
Berkeley DB Utilities
If you're using a Berkeley DB repository, then all of your versioned filesystem's structure and data live in a set of
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