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Re: [Subclipse-users] commit or update of a WorkingSet

From: David Cok <cok_at_frontiernet.net>
Date: 2006-11-13 21:52:38 CET

Mark Phippard wrote:

>David Cok <cok@frontiernet.net> wrote on 11/13/2006 03:21:25 PM:
>
>>Thanks for the comment, Mark.
>>
>>- In my working style, at least, it would be handy to have the actions
>>
>be
>
>>available on the WorkingSet, even if the result was individual
>>commits/updates on each of the underlying projects.
>>
>
>Please file an issue.
>
Done.

>
>
>>- In this particular case, the projects all do map to parts of a single
>>
>SVN
>
>>working copy. In fact, Eclipse's Package Explorer indicates the
>>subdirectory each one comes from and the project properties indicate the
>>
>
>>whole Subversion URL for the project root. So it seems one could tell
>>
>that
>
>>the projects were all part of one working copy. One cannot necessarily
>>translate that into a single commit/update at a higher level in the
>>directory tree (one would have to be sure that the projects in the
>>
>working
>
>>set constituted all of the working copy). However, it does seemm in
>>principle that one could pass all of the related directories to a single
>>
>
>>commit/update, if the API between Subclipse and Subversion allowed that.
>>
>
>The Subversion API does not. JavaSVN added a special one that does, and
>we do use it. The only way it would work with JavaHL would be if you
>checked out a common parent folder using another client, and then imported
>the projects into Subclipse. We would then have to detect this, which can
>be hard given that the common parent is not part of the workspace. Anyway,
>we do not bother to try to detect this scenario since you can only set it
>up manually.
>
That is in fact what I do, since the pieces need to be in separate
Eclipse projects but the whole is best held under a single SVN root.

>
>
>Our hope is to enhance the Subversion API to support this natively, even
>if there is no common parent.
>
Great.

>
>Mark
>
David
Received on Mon Nov 13 21:52:56 2006

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