So, I've been living with my cvs repositories for some time. Though there is a thing I miss - if i rename a file that is already in repository, I need to delete the one with old name from there and add the new one. Hence, I loose all my change-history. And sometimes there's a need to rename a file in alredy existing project. From what I...
Whoops, I need some info from a file I deleted, a while ago. In CVS I would just go to the ATTIC to find it, how do I find a file in SVN without having to go back to a revision where it existed (especially annoying since I have no idea really when I deleted -- one week ago, two weeks ago...) ...
A co worker of mine asked me to review some of my code and he sent me a diff file. I'm not new to diffs or version control in general but the diff file was very difficult to read because of the changes he made. Specifically, he used the "extract method" feature and reordered some methods. Conceptually, very easy to understand but look...
My server has both Subversion and Apache installed, and the Apache web directory is also a Subversion working copy. The reason for this is that the simple command "svn update /server/staging" will deploy the latest source to the staging server. Apache public web directory: /server/staging — (This is an SVN working copy.) I have two use...
This is a continuation question from a previous question I have asked I now have a /externals directory in the root of my project tree. Inside this I have a reference to another project. I'm able to script the build of all my externals in the main project NAnt script. The result of these builds are as follows: /externals/external-proje...
I have a project in subversion, which I'm developing using Eclipse. I did the original checkout from the svn repository from inside Eclipse. All was well for some weeks then for some unknown reason, Eclipse (specifically: subclipse in Ganymede) no longer recognizes my project as being under svn control. The team context-menu only shows t...
what is the best way of displaying/using the revision number in a java webapp? we just use ant to build our .war archive, no buildserver or such. i'd hope there was some kind if $ref that i could write in a resource file, but this is only updated when the file in question is committed. i need it globally. what would you recommend? post...
I have a .bat and inside the .bat i would like to execute a special code if there's some modification inside the svn repository (for example, compile). ...
We use Subversion as our source control system and store the VisualStudio project files (vcproj) in the source control system as is normal I think. With Subversion we don't use any form of file locking, so if two developers are working on the same project at the same time and both add files to the project, or change settings, the second ...
Our team (5-10 developers) plans to adopt Subversion for our .NET (Visual Studio) projects/solutions (VisualSVN Server, TortoiseSVN / VisualSVN). What is the best way to organize a new repository tree? Is it okay to use one big repository or is it better to create different repositories for every solution / product line etc.? Our proj...
I just want to see what files were modded/added/deleted between 2 arbitrary revisions. How do I do this? Can I do this in tortoise as well? ...
We are migrationg from CVS to SVN and embracing some kind of revision management in order to enforce order to development/testing/release cycle. We are currently testing, developing and releasing on the same code line, we know its a bad practice and we want to make end to it. What are your experience, know how, suggestions working with ...
I have a multi-column text file ( tab delimited ) that I use for localized text in my project. I picked this format since it can easily be edited by anyone in most text editors (and excel too). My makefile processes it into a bunch of defines and binary data for including directly into my app. Do you know if SVN merge only does lin...
I have a personal wiki that I take notes on. The wiki's pages are in a subversion working copy directory, "pages", and I set their permissions to 664, owned by www-data:www-data. My username is in the "www-data" group, so I can checkin and mess with the pages manually. For a while, I had an issue because every time I ran a checkin, th...
What are the pros and cons of using a hosting provider for a Subversion repository versus maintaining it in-house? I'm sure there are benefits in terms of ease of set up and use. And it would be nice to have somebody else make sure that our code is backed up properly. However, Visual SVN Server is dirt simple to set up, and we alrea...
If so why? I know setting this on will result in more number of automatically committed revisions. Is it good to have more auto commits? ...
When receiving a bug report or an it-doesnt-work message one of my initials questions is always what version? With a different builds being at many stages of testing, planning and deploying this is often a non-trivial question. I the case of releasing Java JAR (ear, jar, rar, war) files I would like to be able to look in/at the JAR and ...
Is there a way to exclude all svn externals when doing a recursive update? Is there a way to exclude only 1 of all of the svn externals when doing a recursive update? Basically I'd like to cut down the svn update time, and a couple of the SVN externals that I have will just about never get updated. ...
At work, we're using ClearCase right now. However, there's a lot of overhead required, especially when someone does something stupid (like erase a view with multiple reserved check-outs on the trunk...). Since we're trying to lower our overhead and be as lightweight as possible, we've through about the possibility of ditching CC and go...
Can perforce be adjusted so I don't need to "open files for edit"? Someone told me that this was a "feature", and that s/he guessed it could be turned off. ...