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sven is a document-oriented programming library that helps you put content in SVN

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It requires `pysvn` which you will probably want to install system-wide[1].

Basic usage:

from sven.backend import SvnAccess
client = SvnAccess(my_svn_server_repo_uri, my_local_checkout_dir)

client.write('path/to/a/file/to/write', "Lovely content to be versioning!")
client.write('path/to/another/file', "Aw shucks, I'll version this too..",
msg="My commit message", kind='text/plain')

last_rev_int = client.last_changed_rev('path/to/another/file')

last_rev_int = last_rev_int - 1
from sven.exc import ResourceUnchanged
try:
earlier_version = client.read('path/to/another/file', rev=last_rev_int)
except ResourceUnchanged, exc:
last_rev_int = exc.last_change
earlier_version = client.read('path/to/another/file', rev=last_rev_int)

changelog = client.log('path/to/another/file', rev=last_rev_int)

Each `.write` writes the content to the path on the local filesystem's checkout
and then commits it to the repository. The workflow of one-write-per-commit is
by design and is not likely to change soon; if you need a different workflow,
you probably ought to just be using svn clients directly, anyway.

Currently sven does not help you set up an svn client or server. It assumes
you've already got a repository and checkout set up.

The formats returned by some of its methods (particularly .log and .ls) are
totally ad-hoc right now and strange; they'll probably be formalized sooner
or later.

For more detailed usage documentation please see ./sven/doctest.txt (which
can be run as a test suite by `python sven/backend.py`)

[1] If you start to experience Segmentation faults while using sven, especially
during .write operations, your versions of ``svn`` and ``pysvn`` are likely
incompatible (e.g. svn 1.5 with pysvn compiled against your earlier svn 1.4)
If this happens, you should uninstall pysvn, then compile it from source.
You might want to test for this upfront by running the test suite:
python sven/backend.py


New in version 0.3.1:

* Fixed bug: SvnAccess.ls was returning its contents with absolute URIs,
rather than URIs relative to the root of the repository.


History:

0.3 (2009-07-25)
================

* Removed `SvnAccess.update_after_write` knob and instead set default value of True
to the `update_after_write` argument to `SvnAccess.write`; callers can implement
alternatives trivially by subclassing.

* Added `update_before_write` argument to .write with default value of True. Turn
this off as well as `update_after_write` if you want to manage synchronicity in
exchange for potentially significant performance improvements.

* Added `default_commit_message` argument to `SvnAccess` constructor. The default
is "foom".

* Throw `exc.ResourceChanged` exceptions when a file is found to be out of date
during a write operation (which will only happen if `update_before_write` is
unset by the caller) and revert local changes if this happens, to restore the
checkout to an unconflicting state.


0.2 (2009-07-25)
================

* Now with doctests!

* `SvnAccess.write` now supports an optional `update_after_write` argument.
If set to a True value, calls to .write will end with an `svn up` to
resynchronize the checkout with the repository. Default is False.

* `SvnAccess.__init__` now supports an optional `update_after_write` argument.
If set to a True value, all calls to .write will end with an `svn up`
even if .write is not sent a True `update_after_write` value. Default
is True, so if you are concerned with performance and willing to maintain
synchronicity on your own, you should explicitly set this to False.

* `SvnAccess.__init__` no longer executes a silent `os.chdir`.


0.1.2 (2009-07-24)
==================

First release.

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