Here are some of my favourite svn commands.
Create a branch from trunk
$ svn copy http://svn.skybert.net/my-project/trunk \
http://svn.skybert.net/my-project/branches/my-branch
Merge branch back into trunk
$ cd trunk
$ svn merge --reintegrate http://svn.skybert.net/my-project/branches/my-branch
Cherry pick a single revision from trunk into your branch
Here, I cherry pick revision 252723 from trunk into my release-1 branch.
$ cd branches/release-1
$ svn merge -c 252723 http://svn.company.com/project/trunk
Keep your branch up to date with changes in trunk
$ cd branches/my-branch
$ svn merge http://svn.skybert.net/my-project/trunk
Resolving merge conflicts
When Subversion cannot figure out the conflict by itself, it’ll ask you:
Select: (p) postpone, (df) diff-full, (e) edit, (r) resolved, (mc) mine-conflict, (tc) theirs-conflict, (s) show all options:
I recommend pressing dc (display conflict), this will show you the different versions of the conflicting fragments with the shortcuts you need to press to select either of them: tc (their version) or mc (my version).
View the diff of a commit
$ svn diff -r <revision>
To just see the files that were changed, so:
$ svn diff --summarize -c <revision>
Reverting a revision
$ svn merge -c -<revision>
You can think of it as subtracting (hence the minus sign) a commit.
Seeing incoming changes
If you want to see which changes to your working copy a svn update will do, you can type the following command:
$ svn log --diff -r BASE:HEAD
