SVN and Helga access
Access to Helga and SVN.
Helga
Helga is a project management/Asset management tool. On the front end, it looks like a webpage with lists of shots and models in the project. Each shot/model has a preview image, and a short 'blog' where you can put in comments.
Helga also knows who is working on a project, here you can be assigned to work on the shot/model. As you work, post comments in the Shot or Model, with a preview image or movie as an attachment. This makes it easy for the directors to reply with corrections/comments, and let you know when the work is final.
Helga sends email to you on assignments, and lets you know in general how things are going.
SVN (Subbversion)
Repository and Working Copy
SVN is what is known as a Version Control System; it can take a collection of files and save them on a server (this is called the repository).
Multiple people can Check out the files on their own machines (these are called working copies).
Updating and Committing
Let's say Liz modifies the file 'train.blend' in the working copy. In order for Henri to work with her changes, she has to make them available to everybody - so she does what is called a commit . After the commit, the file is now on the repository but not on everybody's working copy.
Henri now has to run an update on his working copy. This will get the version of the file that Liz changed, and he can now use her changes.
Clients
To work with SVN you need a special program installed on your computer. There are many of them, and they are all called svn clients. Some common ones are:
- svn command line client (From a terminal in any OS)
- rapidsvn (linux)
- tortoise svn (windows)
- svnX (Mac)
Instructions for the SVN terminal client
To do the initial checkout , run:
svn checkout PROJECTURL
To update a file:
svn update FILEPATH
To update a directory: svn update
(if you are in the top directory of the project it will update all the files in the project)
To commit a file:
svn commit FILEPATH
If you type:
svn commit
It will commit all things in the current directory.
Adding New Files
If a file does not exist and you create it, you need to do an extra step before you can type svn commit. This is svn add which tells svn you are adding the new file: svn add FILEPATH
followed by: svn commit