Working with SVN / Cerb4

[BMF]

Howdy :-)

This may and probably does sound like a foolish question to some, but I am using this tortoiseSVN product to manage my SVN for Cerb4, every time I update the repo however it appears to reset everything (i.e. it recreates the install file) and et cetera, is there a way that anyone knows of telling it to only change things which have, well changed? (this seems kind of obvious..doesnt it? that is the point...)

thanks,
BMF

[jstanden]

Hey BMF!

It does seem like such a simple question, yet I don't have a simple answer.

From the Subversion mailing list, this has been asked and answered with 'Subversion updates entire directories':
http://svn.haxx.se/users/archive-2006-05/0938.shtml

At the console I simply script it so we're doing:
svn up; rm -Rf install/; svn st

With TortoiseSVN I've just had to delete 'install' manually.

If we didn't do installs directly from SVN I'd just pull the 'install' directory out of SVN.

One possible option is for us to move the 'install' directory to an external repository -- which is how we link Devblocks and ZendFramework in the project. Then you could just change your "svn:external" property on the root /cerb4/ directory to stop updating the install tools.

That's probably the direction we'll go in the near future.

I added a task for this here:
http://www.wgmdev.com/jira/browse/CHD-458

Thanks!