Git setup

git config --global user.name "Your Name Comes Here"
git config --global user.email you@yourdomain.example.com

git config --global color.diff auto
git config --global color.status auto
git config --global color.branch auto

git config --global core.editor vim

Ignore directories when using SVN

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/192824/svn-checkout-ignore-folder

How to install subversion on your linux shared hosting account

1. Find out which linux distro your web host is running
2. Download a set of subversion binaries for that linux distro
1. or install that linux distro on a VM and compile into a PREFIX directory
3. Copy bin/svn and require libs onto your web host (see list below for svn 1.6.16)
4. Voila!

List of libs required for svn client:
svntest/lib/libsvn_ra-1.so.0
svntest/lib/libssl.so.0.9.8
svntest/lib/libsvn_diff-1.so.0
svntest/lib/libneon.so.27
svntest/lib/libsvn_ra_neon-1.so.0
svntest/lib/libsvn_subr-1.so.0
svntest/lib/libsvn_ra_local-1.so.0
svntest/lib/libsvn_wc-1.so.0
svntest/lib/libsvn_ra_svn-1.so.0
svntest/lib/liblber-2.4.so.2
svntest/lib/libsvn_fs_util-1.so.0
svntest/lib/libsvn_delta-1.so.0
svntest/lib/libldap-2.4.so.2
svntest/lib/libcrypto.so.0.9.8
svntest/lib/libsvn_fs_fs-1.so.0
svntest/lib/libsvn_fs-1.so.0
svntest/lib/libapr-1.so.0
svntest/lib/libserf-0.so.0
svntest/lib/libaprutil-1.so.0
svntest/lib/libgdbm.so.3
svntest/lib/libsvn_ra_serf-1.so.0
svntest/lib/libsvn_client-1.so.0
svntest/lib/libsvn_repos-1.so.0

Subversion basics

# checkout / create a new project

svn checkout https://example.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ example --username [username]

# submit a directory for the first time

svn import newdir/ https://example.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/

# see all modified files in project

svn status -v

# submit modified files

svn commit

# diff

svn diff --diff-cmd diff -x -wB [filename]

svn diff --diff-cmd diff -x --side-by-side [filename]

# move or copy, keeping history

svn mv [old file] [new file]

svn copy [old file] [new file]

# update your workspace to head
svn up /your-workspace

# update your workspace to a particular date
svn up -r {2010-11-14} /your-workspace

# ignore a file or directory
svn propset svn:ignore [file or dir] [parent dir]