Subversion Configuration

Before committing files in subversion repository, you need to read the Committer Subversion Access document and you must set your svn client with this properties file: svn-eol-style.txt

Commit Message Template

Commits should be focused on one issue at a time, because that makes it easier for others to review the commit.

A commit message should use this template:

[ISSUE-1] <<Summary field from JIRA>>
Submitted by: <<Name of non-committer>>

o Comments

Where:

• ISSUE-1 can be omitted if there was no relevant JIRA issue, though you are strongly encouraged to create one for significant changes.
• Submitted by only needs to be specified when a patch is being applied for a non-committer.
• Comments some optional words about the solution.

Apply User Patch

By default, the committer should apply the patch without any major modifications. In a second step, the committer could apply any changes as usual.

Edit Commit Message

If you want to edit a commit message, you could call:

svn pe svn:log --revprop -r XXX

where XXX is the wanted version

Other useful Subversion commands while developing

If you've done a chunk of work and you would like ditch your changes and start from scratch use this command to revert to the original checkout:

$ svn revert -R .

The -R argument means that the command will recurse down all directories and revert all changes.

Before committing code to the Subversion repository we always set the svn:ignore property on the directory to prevent some files and directories to be checked in. We always exclude the IDE project files and the target/ directory. Instead of keeping all of the excludes in mind all the time it's useful to put them all in a file and reference the file with the -F option:

$ svn propset svn:ignore -F ~/bin/svnignore .

A typical svnignore file:

target
*~
*.log
.classpath
.project
.settings
.wtpmodules
.idea
*.ipr
*.iws
*.iml
.git
.gitignores