*chuckle*
It's not so much that I'm having "difficulty" with subversion as that I'd just like to be able to use a visual tool when I need to significant rearrange my files that are under version control. I believe a API for subversion has been published, so is there a technical reason not to expect a visual interface?
I don't know enough to be "fixated" on Subversion! Apparently CVS is "out" now and SVN is the heir... so that's what I grabbed onto. I may in the future be working on projects where I'm not the only one messing with things, so I'd like to keep that option open. I've never heard of rdiff-backup... I'll check it out.
Thanks!
eo
On Feb 25, 2006, at 10:52 PM, Trevor Harmon wrote:
On Feb 25, 2006, at 9:32 PM, Eric O'Brien wrote:
I work as a "team" of one, so any rearrangements I make in my svn repository aren't going to disrupt anyone else's work. It might well be that I should have a better idea of where I'm going (or where IT'S going) when I start a project, but that often isn't the case.
I'm not afraid of the command line, but I rarely do much work there and don't come from a CLI background (unless you include my CP/M use of about 20 years ago!!). So the comment "when you need to move or rename, doing so in Subversion isn't any more difficult than the Unix mv command" [Trevor Harmon, Feb 25, 2006] doesn't help me much.
Given the difficulty you're having, I don't see why you're so fixated on Subversion when you're the only one accessing the repository. Why not use a version-tracking backup utility like rdiff-backup? Then you can just do:
rdiff-backup source destination
All of the changes (including moves and renames) will then be taken care of automatically. It works over the Internet, and it can roll back changes to any earlier date, just like Subversion.
You can install it from the unstable tree in Fink.
Trevor