Versions. "Is not a working copy"

Question

A little background first:

I'm a designer/developer and decided to use subversion for a personal project. I'm the only one working on this project. I've setup a Beanstalk account and installed Versions on Mac. Locally I have MySQL and PHP running through MAMP. What I want to do is develop locally and push code into Beanstalk. I'm not planning on deploying from Beanstalk to my live server at this moment.

In Beanstalk I created a repository and imported all my code. I then installed Versions and added a bookmark to the Beanstalk repository. So far so good. Next I guess (this is a wild guess) I need to add a so called 'working copy bookmark' so that Versions can watch my local copy for changes and commit it to my Beanstalk repository.

Problem: When I click 'Create working copy bookmark' in Versions and I select a folder on my computer I get the error:

'/Applications/MAMP/www_mydomain' is not a working copy'

I have no clue what that means and now I'm stuck. How can I tell Versions to keep track of changes of a local folder?

Answer 1

'Not a working copy' means it is not in sync with the SVN and was either not checked out, or is a file that is not a part of the repository (in which case it needs to be Added to Working Copy).

I am not familiar with Versions, but with Subversion I typically start a project by Checking Out from the repository. This tracks changes on your end and makes it a 'working copy' of the repository.

Do you have an option to Check Out from the repository? Try to do it to a new folder and see what happens.