Mac OS SVN Instructions


Macintosh users have it a bit easier that they don't need to download any special utilities, but also a bit harder that they need to manually type SVN commands into the Terminal.

  1. Decide where you want to work out of. Your Documents folder is a good place.
  2. Open a terminal window (go to the Applications folder, open the Utilities folder, and double-click the Terminal application).
  3. In the terminal window, change to the directory you want to work out of, eg.
    cd Documents
  4. Copy and paste the following command, replacing [USERNAME] and [PASSWORD] with your SourceForge Username and Password.
    svn co https://iprov.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/iprov iprov2 --username [USERNAME] --password [PASSWORD]
  5. Make changes to the file items.xml in the directory iprov/iphone-draft. Read the Windows instructions and follow the same guidelines for editing the file. If you are in need of a good, free text-editor then consider TextWrangler.
  6. When your changes are finished, return to the terminal window (if you've opened a new one, make sure you've navigated back to the iprov directory) and enter:
    svn commit -m "[MESSAGE]"
    Replace [MESSAGE] with a brief, one-line description of the changes you've made. (Make sure to include the quotation marks.)
  7. To update to the latest version, type:
    svn update
Make sure to read the Windows instructions, as most of what's there is useful and applies to you as well.
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