God, Windows is sloooooow
I am assisting a colleague today check out a rather large feature branch. I showed him the branch address and he started checking it out using Tortoise SVN on Windows 7. Upon returning to my desk (Ubuntu 11.10), I decided to merge the branch with the major trunk. I checked out a brand new copy [...]
SVN Externals – how to add them
When creating a Zend Framework site, its always best to keep the Zend library as an external source. This way you can keep the branch up-to-date with the release of Zend with a simple text file. To access the externals file, navigate to the root of your site: > cd /var/www/mysite And add the external [...]
Add all new files to SVN
How to recursively add all new files to SVN > svn add –force * Saves a whole bunch of time when committing a load of new pages via the command line.
Creating a copied branch in SVN
To create a new branch in SVN, its very simple. svn copy <source> <destination> -m <message> This will copy the SVN in the source folder, into a new branch under <destination>. Very simple. More, in depth information can be found here: http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.5/svn.branchmerge.using.html#svn.branchmerge.using.create
Getting Ant to run on Windows 7 (64bit)
If like me, you use Ant to deploy builds, etc, and you have migrated to Windows 7 – you may well have troubles getting ant to run. It all worked flawlessly under Ubuntu, but Windows is a different beast – here’s a step by step guide to getting it working.
Ubuntu Console commands for SVN
Console commands in Ubuntu for use with subversion Checkout a branch: svn checkout url@revision path To update your local source: svn up And to commit a single file: svn ci -m “message for commit” <files> Multiple committing is just without the <files>. To download a revision svn co -r 1671<remotefolder> <localfolder> <remotefolder> could be any [...]