On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 21:12, Welington Rodrigues Braga <welrbr...@welrbraga.eti.br> wrote: > Hi guys, > > I've just started to use Subversion a few months ago and I am really > are asking me why I had never used it before but it is not the reason > of my contact. To be honest I am trying to to do a post-commit script > that automatically sincronizes a given workcopy when any of my users > commits their modifications to my repository. > > Although it's is ok and working fine (at least in my simples test), I > did not put in production yet because I have a doubt that neither > Subversion manual or Google were able to answer me. I didn't find any > difference beetwen 'svn update' and 'svn checkout' commands which is > the main function of my post-commit script. > > Nowadays I'm using 'svn checkout' and it is working, like I said, but > I'm not sure if I'm losing some functionality with this option. > > Can anyone help me and answer my question?
svn checkout creates a new working copy. svn update updates an existing working copy. Chapter 2 of the manual, "Basic Usage", covers these pretty well. In particular, "Creating a Working Copy" (http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.7/svn.tour.initial.html) followed immediately by "Basic Work Cycle" (http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.7/svn.tour.cycle.html)
