COMP8440: SCM Tips

As part of your lab work, you will be using a number of source code management systems. For detailed information on how to use them you should read the documentation of each system, but in case you need to get up to speed quickly, here are some basic pointers.

git

• Typical Initial checkout

git clone git://git.samba.org/tridge/ctdb.git ctdb

• Updating your tree with the latest changes

git pull

• Reverting your tree, discarding any local changes

    git reset --hard; git clean -f

• Listing the changed files in your tree

    git status

• Produce a patch showing your local changes

    git diff

• Committing all your changes

    git commit -a

• Show recent commits

    git log

• Show recent commits, with patches

    git log -p

svn (subversion)

• Typical Initial checkout

    svn co svn://svn.gnome.org/svn/gedit

• Updating your tree with the latest changes

    svn update

• Reverting your tree, discarding any local changes

    svn revert .

• Listing the changed files in your tree

    svn status

• Produce a patch showing your local changes

    svn diff

• Show recent commits

    svn log

cvs

• Typical Initial checkout

    cvs -d :pserver:cvs@pserver.samba.org:/cvsroot co ccache

• Updating your tree with the latest changes

    cvs update

• Reverting your tree, discarding any local changes

    rm CHANGEDFILES; cvs update

• Listing the changed files in your tree

    cvs status

• Produce a patch showing your local changes

    cvs diff -up

• Show all commits

    cvs log