SVN is referred as subversion.Now I am going to tell you how you can use this SVN for your contributions to an open source project in simple ways.I assumed you use unix platform as your working environment.
Checking out a project.
For contributing an open source project you need to have the code base of the project which is available in the relevant organisation's repository and you can find out the url of that repository browsing through their official cite.
- Open an terminal
- cd Desktop
- type svn checkout url
Then you will get the trunk of that source code in to your Desktop.
Creating a patch
Once you checked out the source you can do necessary editing of the source code and developing your own code for the project.Then you need to inform the community of that project regarding what changes you have made to the source code simply by using the following command in the terminal being in the necessary folder which is the folder where your code is in.
svn diff > a.patch
or
svn diff > a.diff
then the changes will be in your working folder as the file a.patch or a.diff.Then you can send this file to the community.
Come on visitors try SVN for your contribution.
