[TxMt] Automated way to keep SVN repository in sync with local files?

[Benoit Gagnon]

On Feb 25, 2006, at 3:55 AM, Eric Coleman wrote:

> Not to hijack the thread or anything, but the way you formatted  
> your email, did you do that on your own?  I.e. the links.
>
> I've noticed more and more people with emails like that (from other  
> places too) and I was curious if you are automating it, or if your  
> just doing it by hand.

Oh, this is all manual work :) I got inspired by the Markdown syntax,  
DaringFireball website and other messages from this very list, but I  
believe it is a pretty common practice. I think it's a great  
presentational technique both for the writer and the reader. I will  
generally put all the [x] marks in the text as I write, then go on a  
quest to actually fetch the URLs for those links. That way I don't  
have to read again to see where I could fit them. As for the reader,  
she will usually read the entire email before clicking any link that  
would open a new window, change apps, etc. Having URLs at the very  
end of the message makes perfect sense in this context.

ben

>
> (Im referring to ben and his [1] marks)
>
> Regards,
>
> Eric Coleman
>
> On Feb 25, 2006, at 2:04 AM, Benoit Gagnon wrote:
>
>> On Feb 25, 2006, at 1:17 AM, Ned Baldessin wrote:
>>
>>> (Slightly hijacking the thread, and slightly off topic, sorry)
>>>
>>> Can anyone point me to a definitive source for using SVN in web  
>>> projects ?
>>>
>>> I've tried it on my own several times and with a second developer
>>> once, but I still haven't found a good workflow or method.
>>>
>>> This article is interesting, but too vague :
>>> http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2006/02/07/using-svn-for-web- 
>>> development/
>>>
>>> How do you guys handle SVN, and how have you integrated it in TM ?
>>>
>>> My latest idea: using the auto-commit on save when you mount a  
>>> webdav
>>> repository as a drive.
>>
>> Using WebDAV auto-commit is a good idea if you work only on static  
>> content, where the commit message and diff would give pretty much  
>> the same information anyway.
>>
>> If you are developing web applications, however, I strongly  
>> recommend you do it the Right Way™. That is, set up a fully  
>> independent, development server on your machine. If, like me, you  
>> don't like the idea of messing around and installing low level  
>> stuff on your OS X box, have a look a "one click" solutions. For  
>> Rails, Locomotive [1] is excellent. For PHP/MySQL/Apache, I use  
>> xampp [2].
>>
>> You can have the SVN repository either on your machine or on the  
>> server. I use the second option so I can make quick changes from  
>> other machines. Either way, backup the entire svn repos using  
>> svndump on the second machine. You can use incremental backups if  
>> your repository is really big.
>>
>> When you work on the source, it's a good practice to commit your  
>> changes in small chunks. One commit per modification is ideal.  
>> More than one file can be modified, but try to commit the changes  
>> on a "feature" basis. You'll appreciate this extra work when  
>> you'll have different branches and want to merge, rollback or  
>> combine changesets without having to do it on a file by file basis.
>>
>> One last thing. If you use Rails, here's something I discovered  
>> after a while: it's so quick easy to modify an application in  
>> Rails... I often forget to commit my changes regularly ! Then I  
>> end up with 20 modified files, related to around 4 different  
>> "iterations". Log messages can get tedious when such things happen.
>>
>> I've used this setup with PHP applications, LaTeX, C++ projects,  
>> and now using it for a Rails application.
>>
>> Ben
>>
>> [1] http://locomotive.raaum.org/home/show/HomePage
>> [2] http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp-macosx.html
>>>
>>> Thanks.
>>>
>>> 2006/2/25, Chris Thomas <chris at cjack.com>:
>>>>> This might be a dumb question, but is there ANY elegant solution
>>>>> for keeping my Subversion repository in sync with my local files
>>>>> *including* adding files, deleting files, renaming files?
>>>>
>>>> Something like this script might help with adds and deletes, but
>>>> won't handle moves or renames:
>>>>
>>>> http://svn.bitflux.ch/repos/public/bxcmsng/trunk/inc/bx/tools/ 
>>>> svnsync
>>>>
>>>> Chris
>>>>
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