# Committing changes with subversion (basic question)

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/committing-changes-with-subversion-basic-question/118241>\
**Category:** Deployment\
**Created:** [October 25, 2007, 2:32am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/committing-changes-with-subversion-basic-question/118241 "2007-10-25T02:32:47Z")\
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**Author:** ![dracos](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/ea666f/32.png) [@dracos](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/dracos)\
**Post date:** [October 25, 2007, 2:32am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/committing-changes-with-subversion-basic-question/118241/1 "2007-10-25T02:32:47Z")

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I am trying to commit a change to my rails app using subversion using  
‘svn commit’. This appears to be successful judging by the response I  
get:

Sending public/stylesheets/style.css  
Transmitting file data …  
Committed revision 2.

However, the current version of my rails app is unchanged (the change to  
my stylesheet doesn’t appear online or in the current folder). Is there  
a separate command I need to transfer changes from the repository to the  
current version?

Thanks,

Peter

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**Author:** ![dracos](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/ea666f/32.png) [@dracos](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/dracos)\
**Post date:** [October 25, 2007, 10:20am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/committing-changes-with-subversion-basic-question/118241/2 "2007-10-25T10:20:29Z")

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Hi Peter,

Hard to know without knowing the configuration of your deployment. Is  
this problem  
happening in the development environment? It could be a problem with  
your browser  
caching the file, or the server caching it in a live environment.

OTOH, I seem to remember that you’re using capistrano to deploy your  
application  
somewhere. If you’ve made a change in subversion, then you will need  
to run ‘cap deploy’  
again to deploy the updated version of the code to the server.

I assume that the change _is_ visible in your development environment?

-Chrisl

On Oct 25, 1:32 am, Peter M. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid)

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**Author:** ![dracos](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/ea666f/32.png) [@dracos](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/dracos)\
**Post date:** [October 25, 2007, 12:46pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/committing-changes-with-subversion-basic-question/118241/3 "2007-10-25T12:46:28Z")

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Chris L. wrote:

> Hi Peter,
> 
> Hard to know without knowing the configuration of your deployment. Is  
> this problem  
> happening in the development environment? It could be a problem with  
> your browser  
> caching the file, or the server caching it in a live environment.
> 
> OTOH, I seem to remember that you’re using capistrano to deploy your  
> application  
> somewhere. If you’ve made a change in subversion, then you will need  
> to run ‘cap deploy’  
> again to deploy the updated version of the code to the server.
> 
> I assume that the change _is_ visible in your development environment?
> 
> -Chrisl
> 
> On Oct 25, 1:32 am, Peter M. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid)

Sorry I didn’t mention I am using capistrano. Glad you remembered. ‘cap  
deploy’ was all I needed. Thought it would be a subversion command for  
some reason. Thanks again Chirs1 🙂