[Cialug] Subversion

[Nathan Stien]

On 5/21/07, carl-olsen at mchsi.com <carl-olsen at mchsi.com> wrote:
> 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 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 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)?
>

I might recommend you do something like:

Keep your project in a separate place, such as c:\projects\myproject
with children \htdocs and \phpinclude.  Use SVN to version
c:\projects\myproject. Then edit your apache config to point at the
relevant dirs by whatever means makes sense for your project.  (It's a
pity you can't just use symlinks!)

However, I am not a PHP expert and I've never touched Zend Studio or
even tried to run Apache on Windows, so my advice comes with a free
packet of salt.

But whatever you do, I advise against just having your entire apache
root in SVN.  You might one day have a different project on the same
server which you would want to version separately.  And you might want
to take care not to expose your hidden .svn control directories to the
world in case they include something sensitive.

As for not including everything when importing, I sometimes find it
easier to just create the directory on the repository directly (you
can do this with the TortoiseSVN repo browser) and then check it out
to my desired working directory.  Then I add my relevant files
explicitly and commit the adds.  Perhaps there is some more clever way
to do this, so I'd love to hear ideas from anyone else.

Another important thing to understand is that importing a directory
does NOT make it a working copy.  Only a checkout creates a working
copy, so when you try to checkout in Zend studio it's trying to create
a full working copy on top of your unversioned apache dirs.

The idea is that in general you do this:

  import original directory
  check out to new working directory with a different name

or you can do:

  import original dir
  rename original to something else
  check out to new working dir with original name

Importing just copies stuff into your repository.  It does not create
the .svn control directories or otherwise write anything to the tree
you just imported.

Hope this helps!

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Nathan P. Stien
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Embedded Systems Electronics and Software
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