I am planning to build a simple document management system. Preferably built around the java platform. Are there are best practices around this? The requirements are : Ability to upload documents Ability to Tag documents Version the documents Comment on documents There are a couple of options that I am currently considering. The fir...
I'm trying to merge a branch into a sparse checkout (all the files I touched in the branch are included in the checkout) and I'm getting the following error: Cannot reintegrate into a working copy not entirely at infinite depth Does this mean what I think it means? That you have to have a fully recursive checkout in order to merge ...
In my team, some we help each other with the merges. I.e. my code is merged back to trunk by someone else. It seems like the author info not is fully preserved during a merge. When I do annotate (blame) the merger is shown as the author. Have the merger done something wrong or isn’t the original author preserved in a merge? ...
Our current setup is SVN, AnkhSVN, CCNET. I have read most of the SVN+TFS posts out here, and I still need some more information (this is not duplicate). Our current setup is that we have 8 braches at any given time that are working on the same code base. Main Trunk --> Project 1 Project 1--> Project 2 Project 1 --> Project 3 --> Pro...
What concepts etc in perforce are different from svn in ways that are likely to give me problems? (I am not interested in witch is best, as it not for me to decide what system my new employer uses) ...
Hello. I have a subversion project that have a repository and trunk, tags, branches top-level items. For this project, trunk contains a folders for a big parts like 'common', 'libs', 'core', 'help', 'install', 'tests' etc. The question: is it valid in subversion to branch trunk/common or do i need to always branch entire trunk? I have ...
I am having problems with tortoiseSVN and Subversion. Process is as follows: I create a new repository on computer A. I checkout the repository to a working copy on computer B (we use a peer to peer network, both PCs with Windows Vista). I copy files and directories for an ASP.NET website into the working copy. I add the files, then c...
Hello everybody, I get an error when I want to checkout my SVN server. I use Turtoire on my Windows and the SVN server is based on linux. svnserve.conf [general] anon-access = none auth-access = write password-db = passwd authz-db = authz realm = Project_ASI passwd [users] red = v1z2r dips = dipsi authz [groups] red_and_dips = r...
Hi, (OS is Ubuntu Server) I create a new repository with SVN like that : $ svnadmin create myrepo --pre-1.6-compatible The first time, when I want to access in my new repository myrepo (with TortoiseSVN tool), I could reach in reading, but in writing, I couldn't (lock SVN message appears). So I found on forum post, a guy who recomma...
I have a repository where I have branched and merged back in some changes in to trunk. However I need to now revert trunk back to a revision on my branch. I imagine the solution is to use svn merge however I have not succesfully been able to use this accross branches. Any suggestions would be very useful. ...
I have recent source in branch containing some features. I want to merge them to the trunk source. 1) I cannot pull the source locally. Because, I have to merge nearly for 30+ sources in different different locations. 2) I cannot delete the trunk source location and move the branch sources using the Copy To option. So, I just want to m...
I want to verify the correctness of a soft link in svn. But I don't want to checkout. Is there any method? I try "svn ls", but it cannot give information about soft link. ...
Is there a way to revert from a particular changeset? The changes has been committed, as I see from the changeset. Now, I want to revert back the files from before they were committed. I did svn revert path/to/file but it's not asking for a password or anything. Nothing is happening. ...
Situation - have enormous repository, slow and unreliable link (read - vpn that breaks from time to time). We are subject of frequent branching, moving things, so every now and then whole new branch should be taken from the repository (checkout). Is there a way to 'resume' broken checkouts? Is it safe to do svn checkout with same para...
In my project I have many folders. I certainly know I want have changes in only few files (around 15) each of them are in 7 different folders. Also, I don't want to checkout the entire source to accomplish it. Is it possible to checkout only the required folders alone? I'll have this scenario too often for different sources. Is it poss...
Hello, I am currently looking for git clients for Mac OSX, I have tried the following: GitX (Didn't like it.. doesn't seem functional enough) Git Gui / GitK.. (Butt Ugly! i mean yuuuuuck! and not user friendly) Source Tree (By far the best but still lacking somewhat) Is there a functionally equivalent nice looking "versions" or "cor...
Hi, this may be a duplicate of http://stackoverflow.com/questions/227634/how-do-i-work-around-this-error-while-copying-svn-repository-by-svnsync I'm setting up a repository sync. everthing works fine until revision 3213 (let call this as R). After that the svnsync sync command gives me this error: svnsync: REPORT of 'MY_REPO_URL': Co...
I am trying to find a tool to migrate SVN to TFS 2010. The tools I have found, or have been suggested on this site are fairly expensive (like timely migration) or do not seem to work with 2010 . Does anyone know of a cheaper option or some manual scripting process to accomplish this ? ...
Hello, we have a a pretty large SVN repository (50 GB, Over 100000 revisions). Working with it is pretty slow and my guess is that the reason for this is the flat directory structure in db/revs and db/revprops (Where each revision is one file). We use the FSFS format with SVN 1.5 (On a linux server) but the repo was created with an old...
Hi, Is there a way to monitor commits to a CVS repository on a daily basis say, and for those changes to be replicated in a local SVN repository. Ideally maintaining commit comments. A little perl ditty maybe? Thanks, Steve. ...