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1 Introduction to Version Control in In you can use Version Control to work with different versions of database objects and to keep the database updated. You can review, manage, compare, and revert to any version of an object. This paper covers the Version Control feature in regard to SVN repository. This paper applies to for IBM DB2 5.5 and newer. Before you use Version Control in In order to enable Version Control in you need to connect to an SVN repository server using an SVN client. You can find and use freeware SVN software, e.g. Apache or TortoiseSVN. You should remember the location of your SVN repository installation for setting up Version Control in. How to setup Version Control Right-click an object in a database and select Version Control Version Control Wizard. Click Next, select the database alias and click Next. Select the Provider Type from: File system based Subversion Team Foundation Server via Team Explorer 2008 Team Foundation Server via Team Explorer 2010 Team Foundation Server via Team Explorer 2012 If you select Subversion write your SVN server address into Server, enter your SVN repository login and password, and click Next. Enter the path to bin folder of your SVN repository client, e.g. C:\Program Files\TortoiseSVN\bin and click OK. Select the Version Control folder on your SVN server, Working folder on your disk, click Next and then click Finish. NOTE: All different revisions of your database objects are stored on the SVN server. The working folder on your disk stores the current version of database objects. Introduction to Version Control in 1

2 How to include an object in Version Control 1. If you want to include an Untracked object in Version Control you right-click its icon in Object Explorer and select Version Control Commit. 2. You need to enter a comment, check the object you want to commit and click OK. 3. After a moment its icon and status change to UpToDate ( ). Introduction to Version Control in 2

3 4. When you alter the object, e.g. add a column, its icon and status change to Modified to indicate that you are working with a revision that is different from the revision stored on SVN server. 5. You need to right-click the object and select Version Control Commit to save the changes to the SVN server. The icon and status change to UpToDate( ). How to use Version Control When you right click the object and select Version Control you can: Show Perspective to show status of all objects in SVN Repository Diff to show differences between versions of an object Introduction to Version Control in 3

4 Diff with latest revision to show the differences between the current and the latest committed subversion Show history to review all changes of an object Get latest revision to revert to the latest version from SVN Repository Commit changes to server Undo any recent changes Update status to retrieve current status of the selected object from SVN repository Add to ignore list to exclude an object from Perspective Remove from ignore list to include an object into Perspective Open in Windows Explorer to see an object in its folder Introduction to Version Control in 4

5 NOTE: After Version Control has been set, object icons in Object Explorer change to: Table 1. Icon Description Objects that do not use Version Control are Untracked For objects with UpToDate status Objects that have been Modified and not yet commited Objects that were modified by you and on the server at the same time have Merge status Objects that were modified on the server have OutOfDate status For objects with Unknown status Introduction to Version Control in 5

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