Subversion for Advanced Users Training Course

Subversion design principles and benefits

• The standard copy-modify-merge workflow and techniques for resolving simple conflicts.
• Establishing user policies and guidelines to ensure smooth and consistent team collaboration.
• Alternatives to the copy-modify-merge method, such as locking and unlocking.

Branching and merging strategies

• Determining when to create branches and exploring various use cases.
• Best practices for resolving conflicts and performing merges intelligently, including absorbing changes from different directions.
• Leveraging newer Subversion features to optimise branching and merging processes.
• Strategies for encouraging or discouraging users' local branching practices.

Daily digests and revision auditing

• Utilising mailing lists, RSS feeds, and digest tools.
• Applying blame tracking and delegation concepts.

Subversion properties

• Overview of built-in properties, keywords with the SVN: prefix, and global properties.
• Designing and implementing these properties effectively.
• Creating custom SVN properties specific to your organisation.
• Innovative applications of customised SVN properties.
• Understanding the limitations of SVN properties to avoid over-engineering.

Subversion hooks

• Types of available hooks.
• Common applications of pre-packaged hooks.
• Developing custom, self-defined hooks.
• Applying creative and imaginative solutions using hooks.

Secondary SVN servers

• Implementing servers for backup and fail-safe recovery.
• Utilising secondary servers for automated background tasks.
• Using secondary servers for temporary arrangements, such as managing different locations.

Integration with other tools

• Connecting with issue tracking systems (e.g., bugzilla, track, Jira).
• Integrating with content management systems (e.g., wiki).