Questions

[Richard Cavell <ri...@mail.com>]

G'day. I'm a noobie trying to program in C.

 1. Is svn resolved foo the same as svn resolve --accept working foo ?

 2. Someone suggested creating a repository by installing DropBox on every computer and doing:

 svnadmin create ~/DropBox

 Does this seem like a workable idea (for those of us who do not know how to set up an svnserver or apache httpd)?

 3. Are there any moves to incorporate a keyword such as $GlobalRev$?

 4. I've managed to get keyword substitution working. But once it's working, how do I turn it off for that file type? eg

 Create myfile, containing $Id$
 svn add myfile
 svn propset svn:keywords "Id" myfile
 svn ci -m "Turn on Id keyword" myfile
 svn up
 cat myfile # Id is replaced

 Now, how do I turn it off?

 TIA,

 Richard

Re: Questions

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

On Jun 13, 2011, at 10:00, Daniel Shahaf wrote:

> Ryan Schmidt wrote on Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 04:06:21 -0500:
>> On Jun 13, 2011, at 03:55, Richard Cavell wrote:
>>> 2.  Someone suggested creating a repository by installing DropBox on every computer and doing:
>>> 
>>> svnadmin create ~/DropBox
>>> 
>>> Does this seem like a workable idea (for those of us who do not know how to set up an svnserver or apache httpd)?
>> 
>> I would suggest you not do that.
> 
> This amounts to rsync'ing $REPOS_DIR, which we don't support (and in
> fact may cause the duplicated copy to be corrupt).

Oh. In that case, definitely don't do that. Great way to get everything out of sync very quickly.

I was thinking that it would be more like a SMB or NFS file share, which is what my previous reply was addressing.

Re: Questions

[Daniel Shahaf <d....@daniel.shahaf.name>]

Ryan Schmidt wrote on Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 04:06:21 -0500:
> On Jun 13, 2011, at 03:55, Richard Cavell wrote:
> > 2.  Someone suggested creating a repository by installing DropBox on every computer and doing:
> > 
> > svnadmin create ~/DropBox
> > 
> > Does this seem like a workable idea (for those of us who do not know how to set up an svnserver or apache httpd)?
> 
> I would suggest you not do that.

This amounts to rsync'ing $REPOS_DIR, which we don't support (and in
fact may cause the duplicated copy to be corrupt).

> That would allow any user to do anything to your repository (bypassing any security restrictions or hooks you may want to use) -- even delete the entire repository with one or two keystrokes (intentionally or accidentally). Set up svnserve or httpd instead. The book explains how.
> 
> http://svnbook.org/

Re: Questions

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

On Jun 13, 2011, at 03:55, Richard Cavell wrote:

> 1.  Is svn resolved foo the same as svn resolve --accept working foo ?

"svn help resolved" says yes:

  Note:  this subcommand does not semantically resolve conflicts or
  remove conflict markers; it merely removes the conflict-related
  artifact files and allows PATH to be committed again.  It has been
  deprecated in favor of running 'svn resolve --accept working'.


> 2.  Someone suggested creating a repository by installing DropBox on every computer and doing:
> 
> svnadmin create ~/DropBox
> 
> Does this seem like a workable idea (for those of us who do not know how to set up an svnserver or apache httpd)?

I would suggest you not do that. That would allow any user to do anything to your repository (bypassing any security restrictions or hooks you may want to use) -- even delete the entire repository with one or two keystrokes (intentionally or accidentally). Set up svnserve or httpd instead. The book explains how.

http://svnbook.org/


> 3.  Are there any moves to incorporate a keyword such as $GlobalRev$?

Not that I know of. This explains why:

http://subversion.apache.org/faq.html#version-value-in-source


> 4.  I've managed to get keyword substitution working.  But once it's working, how do I turn it off for that file type?  eg
> 
> Create myfile, containing $Id$
> svn add myfile
> svn propset svn:keywords "Id" myfile
> svn ci -m "Turn on Id keyword" myfile
> svn up
> cat myfile  # Id is replaced
> 
> Now, how do I turn it off?

svn propdel svn:keywords myfile
svn ci -m "Turn off Id keyword" myfile