We use Git and SVN for managing projects.
I personally work on Github, GitLab and BitBucket. I’m more familiar with Git commands.
WordPress itself use the SVN for hosting plugins and themes. I have created a WordPress Theme and Plugins. But, I personally not use SVN though command line.
I personally use Tortoise SVN for managing my theme and plugins. It provides a GUI (Graphic User Interface) which allow working on SVN with a very easy way. Read more about Tortoise SVN.
I was always querying about,
- How to work on SVN though command line?
- Which are the basic SVN commands like Git?
- What is the difference between Git and SVN commands?
- etc.
I’ll create an article on all the above questions which I have tried to resolve soon.
For now, I have created a table of Git vs SVN commands. You can also check below the table of Git vs SVN commands for reference.
| Description | GIT Command | SVN Command |
|---|---|---|
| Copy a repository | git clone | svn checkout |
| Record changes to file history | git commit | svn commit |
| View commit details | git show | svn cat |
| Confirm status | git status | svn status |
| Check differences | git diff | svn diff |
| Check log | git log | svn log |
| Addition | git add | svn add |
| Move | git mv | svn mv |
| Delete | git rm | svn rm |
| Cancel change | git checkout | svn revert1 |
| Cancel change | git reset | svn revert1 |
| Make a branch | git branch | svn copy2 |
| Switch branch | git checkout | svn switch |
| Merge | git merge | svn merge |
| Create a tag | git tag | svn copy2 |
| Update | git pull | svn update |
| Update | git fetch | svn update |
| It is reflected on the remote | git push | svn commit |
| Ignore file list | .gitignore | .svnignore |
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Hi Mahesh this is very helpful quick learners, even i did the pin tab of this link, Thanks buddy, well i’m from pune too