tortiseSVN problems

[Hamilton Link <he...@sandia.gov>]

Who do I ask questions about TortiseSVN? It seems to have a different 
model of the universe than the command line client.

For example...
   I can't figure out how to check out some URL into a working directory 
(as might be needed, for example, to add a branch of some submodule 
from the repository into my working copy).
   I can't figure out how to get stuff checked out without the read-only 
flag set (which is hugely annoying).
   Providing an existing directory name as the target for a URL checkout 
seems to cause the contents of the URL-named directory to be dumped 
into the existing directory (instead of telling the user that the 
directory already exists or providing any warning to a new user that 
the target is supposed to include the name of the new working copy's 
directory).

There are various other irritants but these are the big ones for 
starters. I just want to talk to someone about whether these things are 
configurable, and whether the features list is still a moving target 
trying to figure out how to best reflect the svn command line client 
into an explorer plugin.

thanks,
h



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Re: tortiseSVN problems

[John Szakmeister <jo...@szakmeister.net>]

Hamilton Link wrote:
> Who do I ask questions about TortiseSVN? It seems to have a different
> model of the universe than the command line client.

dev@tortoisesvn.tigris.org would be the pace to ask. :-)

-John

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Re: tortiseSVN problems

[steveking <st...@gmx.ch>]

Hamilton Link wrote:
> Who do I ask questions about TortiseSVN? It seems to have a different 
> model of the universe than the command line client.

1. It's called Tortoi_o_iseSVN, not TortiseSVN.
2. There's a separate mailing list for TortoiseSVN: 
dev@tortoisesvn.tigris.org
3. Before you send mails there, read 
http://tortoisesvn.tigris.org/list_etiquette.html

> For example...
>   I can't figure out how to check out some URL into a working directory 
> (as might be needed, for example, to add a branch of some submodule from 
> the repository into my working copy).

That's the most basic operation. If you don't know how to do that I 
strongly suggest you read the TortoiseSVN docs first:
http://tortoisesvn.tigris.org/docs.html

>   I can't figure out how to get stuff checked out without the read-only 
> flag set (which is hugely annoying).

Häh? Read-only flag? What's a read-only flag? Do you mean the read-only 
file attribute? TortoiseSVN doesn't even touch that!

>   Providing an existing directory name as the target for a URL checkout 
> seems to cause the contents of the URL-named directory to be dumped into 
> the existing directory (instead of telling the user that the directory 
> already exists or providing any warning to a new user that the target is 
> supposed to include the name of the new working copy's directory).

Again, that's something very well explained in the docs.

> There are various other irritants but these are the big ones for 
> starters. I just want to talk to someone about whether these things are 
> configurable, and whether the features list is still a moving target 
> trying to figure out how to best reflect the svn command line client 
> into an explorer plugin.

TortoiseSVN doesn't try to 'best reflect the svn command line client' 
but to provide an easy user interface. If it would just map the command 
line client into a GUI, that wouldn't be good - GUI's work very 
different from command line clients.

Stefan

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Re: tortiseSVN problems

[Toby Johnson <to...@etjohnson.us>]

Hamilton Link wrote:

> Who do I ask questions about TortiseSVN? It seems to have a different 
> model of the universe than the command line client.

TortoiseSVN is a separate project with a separate mailing list. Their 
website is at http://tortoisesvn.tigris.org/

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