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Re: Codegen tool corrupts .svn directory; how to recover so I can commit changes?

From: Marc Sherman <msherman_at_projectile.ca>
Date: 2005-08-18 13:34:35 CEST

Thanks everyone for the advice. I tried to say this up front, but I
guess I wasn't clear enough: yes, I know the current workflow is busted,
and I know that both the tool (Robohelp) and the way we're using it is
broken*. We don't control the tool itself; the "foo_generator"
directory I mentioned in my first message is the source processed by the
tool to generate foo (I should have called it foo_src), but the tool
itself is not under our control. Foo is actually "webhelp", by the way.

* The product manager designed and currently maintains the help system.
  The HR department is making a concerted effort to let me remove his
commit privileges from svn Real Soon Now. :)

A bug has already been filed in our tracker to fix our process, but we
need to get a new build of our help files into SVN quickly for our next
rev, which means we need a workaround for the existing workflow/toolset.
  This is our first help update since our cvs->svn migration, which
explains why we've never run into this problem before.

Ulrich Eckhardt wrote:
> A similar way would be to use the svn_load_dirs script, which would
> have the additional advantage that it automagically adds newly
> generated files and deletes no more generated files.

That might just work, thanks very much. I haven't used svn_load_dirs
yet, so can you please confirm that the process for regenerating the
built help files would be:

1) svn update
2) delete the webhelp dir from the working copy
3) regenerate webhelp from webhelp_generator
4) run svn_load_dirs to commit the new webhelp dir

right?

Thanks,
- Marc

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