Introduction to Version Control in
Toad™
In Toad™ you can use Version Control to work with different versions of database objects and to keep the database updated. You can review, manage, compare, and revert to any version of an object. This paper covers the Version Control feature in regard to SVN repository. This paper applies to Toad™ for IBM® DB2® 5.5 and newer.
Before you use Version Control in Toad
In order to enable Version Control in Toad you need to connect to an SVN repository server using an SVN client.
You can find and use freeware SVN software, e.g. Apache™ or TortoiseSVN. You should remember the location of your SVN repository installation for setting up Version Control in Toad.
How to setup Version Control
Right-click an object in a database and select Version Control | Version Control Wizard.
Click Next, select the database alias and click Next.
Select the Provider Type from:
File system based
Subversion
Team Foundation Server via Team Explorer 2008
Team Foundation Server via Team Explorer 2010
Team Foundation Server via Team Explorer 2012
If you select Subversion write your SVN server address into Server, enter your SVN repository login and password, and click Next. Enter the path to bin folder of your SVN repository client, e.g. “C:\Program Files\TortoiseSVN\bin” and click OK.
Select the Version Control folder on your SVN server, Working folder on your disk, click Next and then click Finish.
NOTE: All different revisions of your database objects are stored on the SVN server. The working folder on your disk stores the current version of database objects.
How to include an object in Version Control
1. If you want to include an Untracked object in Version Control you right-click its icon in Object Explorer and select Version Control | Commit.
2. You need to enter a comment, check the object you want to commit and click OK.
3. After a moment its icon and status change to UpToDate ( ).
4. When you alter the object, e.g. add a column, its icon and status change to Modified to indicate that you are working with a revision that is different from the revision stored on SVN server.
5. You need to right-click the object and select Version Control | Commit to save the changes to the SVN
server. The icon and status change to UpToDate( ).
How to use Version Control
When you right click the object and select Version Control you can:
Show Perspective to show status of all objects in SVN Repository
Diff to show differences between versions of an object
Diff with latest revision to show the differences between the current and the latest committed subversion
Show history to review all changes of an object
NOTE: After Version Control has been set, object icons in Object Explorer change to:
Table 1.
Icon Description
Objects that do not use Version Control are Untracked
For objects with UpToDate status
Objects that have been Modified and not yet commited
Objects that were modified by you and on the server at the same time have Merge status
Objects that were modified on the server have OutOfDate status
For objects with Unknown status
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