Adding files to Subversion
You can add files and directories to your working copy of the website in the normal way, just as you would anywhere else. However, to make your work available to others for review, and to publish your new pages on the website, you must tell your working copy that these new files are to be managed by Subversion. Once you have performed the steps shown here, the content of the files will be sent to the Subversion server when you commit your changes.
Step 2
Select a folder
In this example, we will add a file to the admissions folder.
Step 2
Create a new text file
All of the *.txt files for our website pages are plain text files. On a Windows computer, you can create a plain text file from the right-click mouse menu, as show in the illustration to the right.
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Name the file
Give your new file a name. To keep things simple for our users, use all lowercase letters, and do not use spaces in your filenames. In this example, we will add a page called fees to the admissions folder. The name of the file should end in .txt, as shown in the illustration to the right.
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Add the file to Subversion
After the file has been created, tell the working copy that it should be managed by Subversion, by clicking on the right mouse button again, and selecting the Add option in the menu, as shown in the illustration.
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Confirm the addition
TurtleSVN will ask you to confirm additions to Subversion. In this example, we are adding only our one file, fees.txt. We do want to add this file, so we click on the OK button.
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Additions reported
TurtleSVN will report on the files it has added to Subversion. If there are problems, it will tell you about them.
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File has been added
The icon of the file will change, to show that it has been added to Subversion in your working copy, but is not yet up-to-date in the Subversion repository on the server. Remember that you may need to refresh the file browser display before the icon will show correctly.
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Edit as usual
The newly added file can be opened, edited and saved in the normal way. The illustration to the left shows file content with a correct title: header and Markdown markup. This would create a page in the website when it is previewed or, after committing the change to the Subversion server, rolled out to the Internet.