Quick and Dirty Version Control
Change Tracking with TortoiseSVN
Brian Panulla
The IST Solutions Institute
College of Information Sciences and Technology
Penn State University
Change tracking can tell you...
- When did file X last change?
- What changed in the file?
- Why was the file changed?
- and...
- Who changed the file?
Key Version Control Change Tracking Terminology
- Repository - The master database of file changes
- Working copy, or sandbox - where you make edits and test pages
- Check out - Make a working copy from the repository
- Check in, or commit - Send changes back to the repository
TortoiseSVN Basics
- Create a repository
- Import a project
- Check out a project
- Make changes
- Adding files and checking in changes
- Show history