[TxMt] Workflow question

[lekim raasdnil]

Thanks Thomas,

I guess at all costs is a fairly good answer 8-)

I end up switching between Dreamweaver and Textmate and command line quite
often these days anyway... Dreamweaver has it's uses...

Your answer is sort of what I was expecting I would get as a reply...
 thanks for the fast reply thought!

Regards

Mikel
http://www.blognow.com.au/q

On 3/30/07, Thomas Aylott (subtleGradient) <oblivious at subtlegradient.com>
wrote:
>
> On Mar 30, 2007, at 12:40 AM, lekim raasdnil wrote:
>
> Hello all.
>
> I have been looking at Textmate and bluntly, have been blown away by the
> balance it has gotten between a really narrow scope that is done really
> really really well.
>
> For example, "wrap each line" bundle command is just majic!  I can't think
> how many times I have had to do this by hand in Dreamweaver!
>
> But I have a question that I am sure someone else has solved that I have
> not found a solution for on the web.
>
> That is, how do you integrate Textmate, with SVN and also manage sites?
>
> Now, before ou just hit reply and say "SVNX" let me explain...
>
> Dreamweaver has a nice feature, that is, it knows about all the files in
> the site.  if you change the location of a
> file, change the name of a directory or the name of the file itself within
> the site, it will run back through the entire site and update every link to
> that file.
>
> This is especially useful when you are re-coding sites and bringing them
> up to the CSS age.
>
> The problem with this, is if you do it, SVN doesn't see it and SVN then
> complains about missing file X and added file Y when in fact it is a simpel
> rename X to Y - the end result of this is polution orphans in the SVN
> database (not a huge problem, unless you are using huge files)
>
> Conversly, if you do the move from SVN (svn rename big_picture.jpg
> little_picture.jpg) then Dreamweaver doesn't know about it and can't find
> those 101 references to big_picture.jpg that just got moved (of course you
> can do it with a find/replace, but this does not handle relative links).
>
> One obvious solution is move it with SVN, then do a find / replace in
> textmate.
>
> But that doesn't handle relative links
> (../../../img/myimages/little_picture.jpg being the same as
> ../myimages/little_picture.jpg)
>
> So how do you do it?  I think my answer lies in regex.....
>
> Does anyone have a solution out there to this particular problem?
>
> Regards
>
> Mikel
>
>
>
> I handle all of my svn in TextMate or the terminal. SVNX is way too slow
> and gets in my way.
>
> Way back in the day I totally relied on that feature of dreamweaver. But I
> haven't needed anything like that in a long long time now.
>
> Personally, if I had to do it now I would just do it manually.
> svn rename the file, commit, svn up.
> Then I'd do a project wide search for the filename I just renamed and if
> that was the only file names that then it's easy. But if it's like
> index.html and there are a thousand references to it, I'd just keep from
> having to do this at all costs.
>
> If you really do this sort of thing often then you could write some
> scripts to help automate it. But I'm sure dreamweaver hat lots of code in
> there to understand all of the links that you'd have to either rewrite
> yourself for textmate or just fake with complex regex.
>
> You best bet is to avoid this sort of thing at all costs. ;)
>
> thomas Aylott — *subtleGradient *— CrazyEgg — sixteenColors
>
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