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Re: Deleting files outside Eclipse

From: Mike DeHaan <mikedehaan_at_gmail.com>
Date: 2005-08-09 20:06:12 CEST

What command does subclipse use to do the synchronization? Doesn't
"svn status small-project/ --show-updates" do what we want?

Local deletions appear as ! and remote additions appear as *

http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.1/re26.html

I apologize if I'm way off base.

-M

On 8/9/05, Hugo Visser <hugo@botteaap.net> wrote:
> Thats strange...in fact you are blaming the vcs for something it has no
> control over.
>
> Maybe you could whip up a script to synchronize the svn checked out copy
> of your project with the generated stuff from Xilinx? Or maybe Xilinx
> can make their IDE vcs aware :)
>
> If you are on unix you might create a copy and move script (or alias)
> that just calls svn equivalents of these commands when the scrips are run.
>
> Hugo
>
> Øyvind Harboe wrote:
> > On Tue, 2005-08-09 at 09:00 -0400, Mark Phippard wrote:
> >
> >>You are missing a key point. When you use Subversion, you need to allow
> >>Subversion to "own" your working copy. Subversion is not file-based like
> >>CVS, it is tree-based. So it needs full control of the tree. You cannot
> >>use the operating system delete, move, copy, rename etc.. commands within
> >>the WC. You have to use the Subversion commands. There is no way to use
> >>the OS command first, and then "tell" Subversion about it later.
> >>
> >>In Eclipse, with Subclipse, we capture all of the Eclipse commands like
> >>copy, delete, move and route then through the Subversion commands for you.
> >>
> >>There is no way around this. Subclipse has to live by the rules that are
> >>established by Subversion. Your only option is to either modify or not
> >>use these scripts.
> >
> >
> > I see. Shame really.
> >
> > There are some projects that are forever out of subversion's reach then.
> >
> > E.g. Xilinx FPGA IDE projects we keep under Eclipse CVS today. The
> > Xilinx IDE deletes, moves, copies files blissfully ignorant of CVS and
> > then subsequently and independently we can fire up Eclipse and
> > synchronize against + commit against CVS.
> >
> > When these sort of projects are involved, I don't forsee one CVS and one
> > subversion server being maintained, hence the switch to subversion will
> > never happen in these cases.
> >
> > Thanks for the clarification.
> >
>
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Received on Wed Aug 10 04:06:12 2005

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