[TxMt] "Pristine Copy" and svn bundle checkout

[Allan Odgaard]

On 25/5/2006, at 8:35, John Tsombakos wrote:

> The directions say to check them out to /Library/Application
> Support/Textmate, but the release notes (and Allan's previous email),
> said the place for new bundles is the "Pristine Copy" folder. Is that
> folder just for bundles? What about the rest of the items that are
> currently in /Library/Application Support.... ?

Currently Pristine Copy is only for bundles. So keep the checkout in / 
Library.

The only difference with Pristine Copy is that this folder is always  
writable by the current user, meaning that TextMate itself can  
install in that folder w/o worrying about admin privileges. So the  
appearance of this folder is not related to svn checkouts.

In fact, even when themes and plug-ins will be taken from Pristine  
Copy, it may still be advantageous to keep the svn checkout in / 
Library, as there are really three “types” of bundles:

    custom bundles
     -> ~/Library/Application Support/TextMate/Bundles

    subversion bundles
     -> /Library/Application Support/TextMate/Bundles

    other 3rd party bundles
     -> ~/Library/Application Support/TextMate/Pristine Copy/Bundles

The latter category would be anything you double-click (to install),  
e.g. bundles (and bundle items) sent to this list. There is probably  
some value in keeping bundles from svn separate from other 3rd party  
bundles.