SVN pushing changes

Question

I am used to Git and am learning SVN now. In Git you have to add the files, commit the changes, and the push to the repo. In SVN I only found add and commit commands. Does this mean that when you run svn commit the changes are pushed to the server? If not what command do I run to push changes to a repo?

Answer 1

Correct, svn commit will push your local modifications to the server. Take a look at the Basic Work Cycle to get a quick-ish overview of the commands you'll typically use.

The "common" pattern is:

1. update to merge the latest changes from the server into your working copy;
2. Perform whatever modifications you need to do;
3. update again to make sure you're up to date (you can skip this and the next step will fail if you're not up to date);
4. commit to push your changes to the server.

SVN doesn't have a staging area; there's just your working copy and the repository (plus your local pristine, but you only interact with that indirectly when you revert any working copy changes).

As a side note, Git and SVN have an awful set of terminology that can overlap when not expected (see revert and checkout). Check out this resource for some help with that.