Create folders on initial checkout

[Judah Frangipane <ju...@t8design.com>]

Is there a way to make a repository create initial empty folders on the
first check out? 

 

We want to checkout a repository to a website directory and have it
create "template" directories like, "images, uploadfiles" etc. But we
don't want anything in those directories to be committed to the
repository.

 

Judah

Re: Create folders on initial checkout

[Ryan Schmidt <su...@ryandesign.com>]

On Mar 13, 2006, at 22:21, Judah Frangipane wrote:

> Is there a way to make a repository create initial empty folders on  
> the first check out?
>
> We want to checkout a repository to a website directory and have it  
> create “template” directories like, “images, uploadfiles” etc.But  
> we don’t want anything in those directories to be committed to the  
> repository.

So create the directories and check them into the repository. Just  
don't check in their contents. You can set the svn:ignore property of  
those directories to "*" to make Subversion ignore (and subsequently  
not check in) anything in those directories.

FWIW, in our web projects, we've stayed away from putting system- 
generated or uploaded files anywhere within the working copy. We  
subscribe to the idea that the working copy is transient and  
expendable, and that it should be perfectly fine to obliterate a  
working copy and get a fresh one from the repository. If we were to  
store uploaded files inside the production server's working copy,  
handling the working copy that way would be fatal. And we want to be  
able to treat the working copy that way, so we store essential data  
like uploaded files somewhere separate.



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