[Journal] SVN setup for volume 6

[Tyler Mitchell (OSGeo)]

Some of you won't be familiar with using SVN. Basically it's a
repository for sharing files and tracking their modifications.  You will
need three steps to access and save your files in the system:

1. Get an OSGeo User ID so you can have permissions to save into the
Journal repository.  Otherwise you can only just download/read the files
and not upload/write.

http://www.osgeo.org/osgeo_userid

Let me or others on the list know your user name, and we can add you to
the privileged 'commiters' group.

2. You need an SVN (aka subversion) client application to download the
repository to your computer.  You direct your client program to the
http://svn.osgeo.org/osgeo/journal repository (it's large!)
Or just the part you're interested in at present:
http://svn.osgeo.org/osgeo/journal/volume_6

Be sure to use your username/password from step 1 - so that you can do
edits later on.

>From command line in linux it looks like:
svn co --username tmitchell --password **yourpassword**
http://svn.osgeo.org/osgeo/journal/volume_6
(the above is all one line)

3. To add a file to repository, you simply copy it into the folder you'd
like it in.  Using your client you then need to 'add' it using an svn
tool - this adds it to the svn database index.  I only know command line:

svn add volume_6/editorial/mynewfile.txt

Then 'commit' it so it is actually sent to the server and saved.  Please
provide a valuable comment message too:

svn commit volume_6/editorial/mynewfile.txt --message "final version"

Hope that helps.. perhaps putting this in the wiki is wise if others
have comments or questions in the future.

Tyler


Tyler Mitchell (OSGeo) wrote:
> SVN folders are now set up for volume 6.  Sections editors or others can
> now save the final drafts of their articles into the appropriate folder
> there:
> 
> http://svn.osgeo.org/osgeo/journal/volume_6/en-us/
> 
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