what are your favourite subversion tips and tricks

Question

Subversion is my source control of choice after experience with source safe and subversion.

Developing with .net I find the commit dialog cluttered with files that are not relevant and should be ignored. Since v1.5, ignoring patterns of files and folders is a life saver to help prevent missing files that I should be checking in.

Another tip I find useful is adding external assembly binaries with a "Latest" version folder:

 Repo A
  - Proj1
  - Lib(External retrieves latest binary of Repo B)

 Repo B (Library)
   - Proj1 
   - Proj2
   - Binaries
     - v1
     - Latest

That way, when I do an update, I get the latest external assemblies too.

What tips and tricks do you have for making life with Subversion easier and as a developer?

Answer 1

It's great to be able to use sparse checkouts, where bulky uninteresting directories can be skipped: http://blogs.open.collab.net/svn/2009/03/sparse-directories-now-with-exclusion.html

Answer 2

Use TortoiseSVN.