SVN commands you must know as an Automation Engineer
In the course of automation and
continuous integration , you will someday come across a stage, where you will need to perform svn operations . And obviously, using command line (forget fancy
UIs to do your business) cause it has to be headless (no visible UI). And then you will have to start
digging in, which will take a substantial amount time ...believe me. This happened with me recently, and
I swore to myself, I cannot repeat this search and rescue operation.
The basic svn operations you must be using everyday are: Checkout Export Add files Commit Info Update Get properties Set properties log listLets say, you are automating a testing activity. You basic steps must be: Get the firmware to be tested (from svn or some repo) Get test code (again from repo) Run your test Commit test results into a Tag or send a report For 3 of above tasks, you are going to need to use a lot of svn commands.
Export or Checkout ?
Before you start, you must decide to checkout or export your reposi…
The basic svn operations you must be using everyday are: Checkout Export Add files Commit Info Update Get properties Set properties log listLets say, you are automating a testing activity. You basic steps must be: Get the firmware to be tested (from svn or some repo) Get test code (again from repo) Run your test Commit test results into a Tag or send a report For 3 of above tasks, you are going to need to use a lot of svn commands.
Export or Checkout ?
Before you start, you must decide to checkout or export your reposi…