Subversion

Subversion is the name of the project used to maintain the Open Babel version control repository. There are many clients for Subversion, including command-line and GUI applications. For more links, see the Subversion website.

The following table suggests equivalents between the old CVS command-line actions and Subversion. More documentation can be found in the Official SVN Manual.

CVS Command	Subversion Command	What it does
cvs -d repo co openbabel	svn co https://svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/openbabel/openbabel/trunk openbabel	Check out the current version of Open Babel
cvs -d repo co -r openbabel-2-0-x openbabel	svn co https://svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/openbabel/openbabel/branches/openbabel-2-0-x openbabel	Check out the current stable branch (2.0.x) of Open Babel
cvs update -dP	svn update	Update the current directory with any new changes
cvs add filename	svn add filename	Add the file 'filename to the repository
rm -f name cvs remove filename	svn remove filename	Remove the file filename (before a commit)
mv filename newname cvs remove filename cvs add newname	svn mv filename newname	Move/rename the file filename to newname
cvs commit	svn commit	Commit the changes to the central repository
cvs diff	svn diff	Return a diff set of differences between the working copy and the central repository
cvs -d repo co -r foo openbabel	svn co repo/branches/foo openbabel	Check out a branch named foo into the directory named openbabel
cvs update -r foo	svn switch repo/branches/foo	Switch the current working copy to a branch named foo
cvs tag -b foo	svn copy repo/branches/foo	Create a branch named foo with the current working copy