[ciapug] Subversion

[Carl Olsen]

I have an unusual production environment.  We have a content management
server that builds the pages using Java Server Pages.  It publishes the
finished pages to a web server using php for the file extensions.  If I put
a PHP include file into one of them, I can include PHP code from anywhere on
the computer, so I keep it in the phpinclude folder since it really doesn't
need to be in the web root.

It would make sense for me to exclude the web root as well as the folders
under it, since all I really need in those files is a single include
statement.  I wasn't having any problem with any of this using CVS because
CVS versions each file instead of an entire project.  Subversion is
different, so now I'm seeing problems with the way I have things set up.

I do have both a hard copy of the svnbook (Copyright 2004) as well as the
most recent version I downloaded today from the website.  I'll take a look
at the pages you suggested.  I think I want the entire phpinclude directory
to be one project, but I'll figure that tomorrow.

Since the htdocs folder was installed by Apache and the phpinclude folder
was created by me, the problem I'm having may be related to permissions on
the htdocs folder.

I don't understand why I see a checkbox for recursive in subversion.  In CVS
it made sense because it versions each file separately.  I don't understand
what it means in Subversion if Subversion is going to give the entire
project a version number every time I commit.  I should probably play with
it more before I start asking too many questions.  It will make more sense
when I get something working.

Thank you!

Carl

-----Original Message-----
From: ciapug-bounces at cialug.org [mailto:ciapug-bounces at cialug.org] On Behalf
Of Rearick, John P [VDPAM]
Sent: Monday, May 21, 2007 2:51 PM
To: ciapug at cialug.org
Subject: RE: [ciapug] Subversion

A good place to start learning about Subversion is the "book" at
http://svnbook.red-bean.com/ .  For your specific problem check out the
ignore options
http://svnbook.red-bean.com/nightly/en/svn.advanced.props.special.ignore
.html .

However, I would see about not checking in the entire Apache folder and
rearrange your applications' directory structure so that it is not mixed
in with the other Apache files.  For example have a directory for your
application (htdocs/myApplication) and inside that folder have your html
and phpinclude folder (htdocs/myApplication/html and
htdocs/myApplication/phpinclude).  If phpinclude is more of a shared
library, you might want to consider having phpinclude in a separate
repository.

John

-----Original Message-----
From: ciapug-bounces at cialug.org [mailto:ciapug-bounces at cialug.org] On
Behalf Of carl-olsen at mchsi.com
Sent: Monday, May 21, 2007 2:26 PM
To: ciapug at cialug.org
Subject: [ciapug] Subversion

I'm trying to figure out how to use Subversion.  I have version 1.4.3
installed 
on Windows XP Professional and I have Tortoisesvn installed.  I created
a 
repository at "C:\svn\apache2" and I imported the "C:\apache2" folder
into it.  
I'm sure that was a mistake because that is where I have Apache 2.2.x
installed.  
The reason I tried to do it that way is because I have two folders where
I keep 
my working files "htdocs" and "phpinclude" and I want to be able to have
them 
both open in Zend Studio 5.5 at the same time.

When I open Zend Studio and try to checkout the files, I get an error
message saying it 
cannot add the directory "htdocs" because it already exists.  Obviously,
it does 
exist because that's where I imported the files from.

Is there some way I can set this up so that it only versions the files
and 
folders I want to version and ignores the rest, as well as allowing me
to keep 
my working directory the same as the web root for Apache (and my
"phpinclude" 
folder which is outside the web root)?

Carl Olsen
Des Moines
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