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Re: Sharing a pre-existing project

From: Mark Phippard <MarkP_at_softlanding.com>
Date: 2004-07-08 21:07:59 CEST

Matt Cristantello <cristant@fstrf.org> wrote on 07/08/2004 03:02:29 PM:

> >
> >1. So your projects have already been places in the repository in this

> >step?
> >
> >
> The files making up the projects are already in the repository before I
> try to use them from SVN.
>
> >If that is the case, you ought to be just defining your SVN repository
in
> >the SVN Perspective, you then browse the repository, pick your project
and
> >do a Check out. This populates the workspace and has you all connected
up
> >to go.
> >
> >
> The problem with Check Out is that it first attempts to delete
> everything that is in the workspace location -- obviously a bad idea
> when this is a shared location for multiple developers, since
> uncommitted changes get blown away. Is there a way to tell it to not
> delete the files first if it finds them there?
>
> If it helps put things in perspective, the project location is the
> webroot of our development webserver, so the files need to go there in
> order to be easily tested.
>

Does Eclipse even allow you to do this and work this way? I have never
heard of anyone doing that. I guess I cannot help, I would recommend a
more conventional setup where developers have private workspaces. Eclipse
has "deploy" plugins that can use FTP or WebDAV to populate an external
location if that helps.

Mark
Received on Fri Jul 9 05:07:59 2004

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