RE: Re: Re: Need to check a file out, but want never to check it back in !

> There is. http://tortoisesvn.net/docs/release/TortoiseSVN_en/tsvn-dug-settings.html#tsvn-dug-settings-hooks
>

Yes, that is the client-side hooks what I mentioned earlier. As I said, it doesn't work for me. I expect just to point that hook at some batch file or other (which may or may not be something that has come out of the registry) but it just flashes a DOS box and does nothing. I know these batch files run with an empty environment, but it should do *something* surely.

Can someone explain what the "directory" bit is for ? I don't want to commit myself to people checking out to a particular directory (even if I said C:\ then that would preclude people checking out to other drives).

<later>
Oh, great ! I've just realised that client-side-hooks are now machine-global; I want them per project !
</later>

I'm pretty sure CVS has a commit-once-but-never-version option for each file. Is my memory wrong on this ? If it isn't, and SVN was developed as "a better CVS", why on earth was this simple-to-implement feature missed out.

Currently, I have multiple people who copy "the project" from a file server into some directory. They build. They make changes. They submit it back to the file server. All I want to do is to replace the "file server" with subversion (or any version management system). If they are going to have to remember to do a "run this batch file" or setup some obscure extension to TSVN to get it to work, they aren't going to accept it.

I realise that, in part, what I am trying to do is to make TSVN accommodate the stupidity of our build environment. If we were able to do it properly, with make files and stuff, this would not be an issue.

Actually, the original problem is only the tip of the iceberg, I have other things that I expect (T)SVN to do, such as deem a file "not changed" if just some absolute path has changed (HWB need absolute paths and different developers will checkout to multiple directories). Having been informed last night that custom differs can't do this, it seems I'm stuck all ways.

This business about "security" and people checking in rogue scripts just won't happen in my environment and if SVN/TSVN had a simple "perform a simple copy" on checkout (that could be done server side), there wouldn't be any need for generic scripts, and thus no security issues (for me).

I'm running Slik VisualSVN Server as a server. I wonder if this can do anything helpful for me.

Maybe I should go with the DVCSen trinity: bzr, git, hg. I don't really want the distributed business but they seem a lot more accommodating.

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Received on 2010-11-05 10:02:46 CET