Free Subversion (SVN) Training Webinars

WANdisco, a corporate sponsor of the Subversion open source project, with core developers from the project on staff and solutions that support the world's largest Subversion implementations, is offering a series of free bi-weekly hour long online training sessions for Subversion users and administrators.

Registration is now available for the first courses of 2012. Early registration is recommended as space is limited. We'll be adding more courses soon, so keep checking back to make sure you don't miss out. And if there's anything you think we missed out in 2011's webinar program, please don't hesitate to contact us.

Missed a webinar? Don't forget, past webinars can be viewed on-demand and for free, see our Webinar Replays page.

TortoiseSVN 1.7 New Features
Broadcast Details
Thu, May 24, 2012
9:00 AM PDT
12:00 PM EDT
5:00 PM BST
6:00 PM CEST
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TortoiseSVN, the popular Subversion client has been updated to version 1.7. This latest version includes many changes, including new features as well as some important differences in functionality. Attend this webinar to learn all about these changes and get the most out of Tortoise 1.7.
 
Covered topics include:
 
  • New properties
  • Property wizards
  • New / expanded forms

 

 

Forrester Research on Optimizing Global Distributed Software Development Using Subversion
Broadcast Details
Wed, June 6, 2012
9:00 AM PDT
12:00 PM EDT
5:00 PM BST
6:00 PM CEST
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This webinar will discuss the research and findings of the independent Forrester TEI study involving a Fortune 500 company that was able to achieve a 380% return on investment by utilizing WANdisco's MultiSite replicator technology with Subversion to enhance and scale their globally distributed network of over 1,000 software developers.

  • Reducing software development costs by eliminating annual support renewals
  • Reducing development cycle times
  • Increasing the quality of the applications going into production

The webinar will be presented by WANdisco Solutions Architect, Pat Burma and Mike Lester, WANdisco's Director of Training.

All About the Subversion Commit Command
Broadcast Details
Thu, June 7, 2012
9:00 AM PDT
12:00 PM EDT
5:00 PM BST
6:00 PM CEST
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Taking a close look at Subversion Commit Command. As part of this 1-hour course, Mike will be covering the following areas:
 
 
  • Commit dialog options
  • Files or folders
  • Unversioned files
  • Ignored files
  • Drag and drop
  • Changelists
  • Common problems and how to avoid them

 

 

Introduction to Subversion
Broadcast Details
Thu, June 14, 2012
9:00 AM PDT
12:00 PM EDT
5:00 PM BST
6:00 PM CEST
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Back to basics! This course is intended as a primer for new users or people who are thinking of making the jump to Subversion. This will be a short introduction to the way Subversion works. All the topics that a new user needs to be exposed to. 
Covered topics include:
 
  • Repository basics - creating and organizing
  • Checkouts, working folders, editing files and checkins
  • Reporting on changes
  • Simple branching
  • Simple merging

 

 

Version Control using Subversion
Broadcast Details
Thu, June 28, 2012
9:00 AM PDT
12:00 PM EDT
5:00 PM BST
6:00 PM CEST
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Learn a little more about the how and why we use version control; we will point out the advantages of version control and use Subversion as the example of a tool that can provide these advantages.
Covered topics include:
 
  • Code control
  • Multi-developer situations
  • What is different?
  • Who changed what?
  • Which release had what changes?
  • Code reusability

 

 

Advanced Branching and Merging
Broadcast Details
Thu, July 12, 2012
9:00 AM PDT
12:00 PM EDT
5:00 PM BST
6:00 PM CEST
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This course follows on from our earlier webinar on branching and merging - this time Mike covers topics such as:
 
 
  • Merge types - Reintegrating a branch, merging a range of revisions, merging two different trees
  • Meaning of merge messages
  • Usage of svn:mergeinfo
  • Analyzing branches using revision graphs
  • Enforcing branching standards